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Posted Mar 31, 2009 9:38 UTC (Tue) by regala (guest, #15745)
In reply to: Two more by man_ls
Parent article: From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts'o (Linux Magazine)

who's the arrogant ?
who's been contributing since September 1991 ?

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Posted Mar 31, 2009 9:47 UTC (Tue) by regala (guest, #15745) [Link] (3 responses)

guess that's not well put :/
what I'd like you to do, is to think about what you said. I don't think anyone can say Ted was ever arrogant, in these dreadful flame threads around Launchpad, Ubuntu and here on LWN. He's been quite understanding, never calling anybody anything while being insulted by herds of angry mob.
Would you please like to stop ? He's no arrogant, you are. Ever considering Linus starting to mistrust his judgement is ridiculous.

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Posted Mar 31, 2009 18:21 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (2 responses)

Have you ever had anyone say that your code is "badly written" because he understood a spec in a rather peculiar manner? That amply qualifies as an insult to me. Given that most people in the world understands the spec differently, it's not bad for arrogance either.

That reminds me of the old joke. A reckless driver on the highway is listening to the radio: "Attention, attention, there is a crazy man driving against the traffic on the highway", and he says: "One? All of 'em!"

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Posted Mar 31, 2009 19:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I'd call Ted one of the most charming and thoughtful people working in
kernel development (in fact, in free software development, period). I may
sometimes disagree with what he says, but he's *always* worth listening
to, and always well reasoned.

I wonder if you're been using the same Internet I have, really.

Good people behaving badly

Posted Mar 31, 2009 21:37 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

nix, I highly value your opinion, and Mr Ts'o can be a patron saint of the arts, but he has behaved like a jerk in this issue. Just look at his own E pur si muove:

This will cause a significant performance hit, but apparently some Ubuntu users are happy using proprietary Nvidia drivers, even if it means that when they are done playing World of Goo, quitting the game causes the system to hang and they must hard-reset the system. For those users, it may be that nodelalloc is the right solution for now personally, I would consider that kind of system instability to be completely unacceptable, but I guess gamers have very different priorities than I do.

I probably got too carried away with the discussion (and my own indignation). Probably he did not mean to insult anyone, and he did express himself with manners. But this tirade is not well reasoned; it has a lot of holes and is in general a lot of rubbish. More's the pity if he is such a worthy individual as you say.