Good people behaving badly

Posted Mar 31, 2009 21:37 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Two more by nix
Parent article: From ext3 to ext4: An Interview with Theodore Ts'o (Linux Magazine)

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.