SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 23, 2010 20:13 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by cmccabe
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Thanks. I was going for understated. ;-)

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 16:27 UTC (Thu) by fuhchee (guest, #40059) [Link] (1 responses)

Isn't it ad hominem to discount someone's technical ideas merely because of homicide?

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 19:22 UTC (Thu) by jldugger (guest, #57576) [Link]

Ad hominem isn't always a fallacy. If the argument is that the LKML doesn't play well with others, and you use Reiser as an example, demonstrating that Reiser also doesn't play well with others makes it harder to assign blame.