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Distribution quote of the weekDistribution quote of the weekPosted Mar 20, 2013 13:04 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: Distribution quote of the week by dgm Parent article: Distribution quote of the week Unfortunately, I mostly associate utterances along the lines of "Anybody can choose to feel offended by anything" with the likes of Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson, and Jeremy Clarkson.
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Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 20, 2013 17:33 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Interesting. I associate it with people like Salman Rushdie or Galileo Galilei, instead.
Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 20, 2013 18:37 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Being provocative is fine at times but just being rude doesn't make you Salman Rushdie. It makes you a jerk.
Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 21, 2013 17:41 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Rude is a subjective quality, just like offensive or beautiful: Salman Rushdie is a jerk for quite a few people out there.
But that was not a good example, Rushdie was being *deliberately* provocative. That's not what I saw in the mail exchange. What I saw was someone choosing to ignore a valid point on the grounds that the messenger was offensive and elitist, a clear ad hominem fallacy even if it was true.
And that leads us to the crux of the matter. Was Malone rude and elitist, as purported by Duffy? The mails are out there for all to see and consider.
Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 21, 2013 17:49 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Feel free to call it whatever you want but if you have a valid point, you are better off expressing it politely. Human nature being what it is, you are unlikely to convince someone else by comparing non technical users to monkeys.
Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 22, 2013 9:56 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] Absolutely.But that's not important here. Let me reuse your words and say that, Human nature being what it is, everybody can (and do) behave inappropriately eventually. We all have had a bad day. And if I have to deal with people because of my job, I have to understand that. Otherwise I'm behaving like a jerk too. Do two wrongs make a right? Curiously enough, I have just read about the "donglegate" thing that happened at PyCon. Those things should get us thinking about what's the correct behavior in those situations.
Distribution quote of the week Posted Mar 22, 2013 14:10 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
For most people contributing to Fedora, it is *not* their job and this discussion has nothing to do with anyone having a bad day since such opinions have been expressed by the same people consistently. So your argument doesn't make much sense and I think you aren't aware of the history here.
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