Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 5, 2015 19:08 UTC (Mon) by BradReed (subscriber, #5917)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by mebrown
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

You seem to assume that having social graces is an indicator of above-average coding skill. Just because someone wants to be a contributor, does not mean they necessarily have anything to contribute. If the only thing you have to contribute is criticizing others' social skills, then are you really helping linux development?

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Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 10:38 UTC (Tue) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (2 responses)

Same thing if you turn it around: What benefit is there in having people driving other people away. There seems to be an assumption that the quality might go down if you're not allowed to be sexist, etc. IMO quality is down because people are sexist. Further, if you really wanted a highly technical debate, then why allow all this bad non-technical behaviour/discussions?

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 6, 2015 20:28 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

> ... f you're not allowed to be sexist

who is being sexist here? Sarah isn't complaining about kernel developers being sexist, she's complaining about other things.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 7, 2015 10:26 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Ah, true. However, point is still the same