Day: GNOME OS [LWN.net]

Day: GNOME OS

Posted Aug 10, 2012 17:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Day: GNOME OS by jwakely
Parent article: Day: GNOME OS

I do wonder if there's anyone on Earth slashdot won't call an idiot or a moron. There certainly doesn't seem to be any need for actual evidence before accusations are launched.

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Day: GNOME OS

Posted Aug 13, 2012 11:33 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>I do wonder if there's anyone on Earth slashdot won't call an idiot or a moron. There certainly doesn't seem to be any need for actual evidence before accusations are launched.

But it's the open source way, and is widely (though not universally) supported here whenever the question comes up of whether this is an appropriate way to behave.

Standards are great, double standards doubly so.

(BTW I'm not being flippant - this is exactly the standard of behaviour that's considered normal and expected in the open source communities I look at. Compared to debian-devel it's positively gentlemanly.)

Day: GNOME OS

Posted Aug 13, 2012 16:39 UTC (Mon) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link]

> But it's the open source way, and is widely (though not universally) supported here whenever the question comes up of whether this is an appropriate way to behave.

I'm sure you could find many examples of open-source communities where rudeness and flamefests are considered appropriate behaviour. You could also find examples where the opposite is true.

But however "widely supported" this attitude is in the greater open source world, it is my experience that it's not supported here on LWN, which is (for the most part) a very polite, civil, intelligent place for discussion.