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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:46:08
Message-Id: 4FABAA35.4050604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] by Greg KH
1 Greg KH schrieb:
2 > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:51:37PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
3 >> Please stop throwing lennartware at people. FailAudio has been enough, thanks.
4 > The use of these terms is both rude and totally uncalled for. You
5 > should be ashamed of yourself.
6 >
7 > Seriously, that's unacceptable behavior from anyone.
8
9 You mean as unacceptable as calling C++ proponents "full of
10 bullshit"[1], developers of another operating system "masturbating
11 monkeys"[2] and security researchers as "people wanking around with
12 their opinions"[3]?
13
14 > No one forces you to use any of this software if you do not want to.
15 > There are lots of other operating systems out there, feel free to switch
16 > to them if you do not like the way this one is working out, no one is
17 > stopping you. But for you to disparage someone who has given immense
18 > bodies of work to the community, and you, for free, is horrible behavior
19 > and needs to stop right now.
20
21 Insulting other people is indeed not nice. A borderline statement would
22 be the "card-carrying member of the Poettering gang" which was coined by
23 a well-known kernel developer who shall remain unnamed here.
24 But using harsh words to describe other people's software? C'mon.
25
26
27 Best regards,
28 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
29
30
31 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
32 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/296
33 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/1/217

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