Nonsense

Nonsense

Posted Sep 26, 2007 13:54 UTC (Wed) by peace (guest, #10016)
In reply to: Nonsense by man_ls
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)

So "polite and pleasant" is where the bar is set? How the hell is anyone supposed to police that? It is completely subjective. I might be able to understand "not deliberately abusive" but really, I just don't care about this issue of politeness. There is only one thing that matters in FLOSS:

"Show me the code".

If being polite leads to more and better code than it will naturally win out. If being a stubborn abusive jackass leads to more code, than thats what we will see. FLOSS is a universe of personalities. It is not supposed to be a personality contest.

The call for "Politeness" can be just as much a power grab as being rude. And just as pointless.

Kind Regards

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