Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 7, 2015 7:17 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by tialaramex
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

I fail to see any point attempting a constructive conversation with someone whose response to evidence is to claim everyone is lying.

So, have fun ignoring what people are telling you and making up little fairy tales. It won't fix them problem, of course, but I guess getting to treat people like shit it more important than working code.

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Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 7, 2015 19:37 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

So, Microsoft do have all this stuff? They're so friendly, surely they'd be falling over non-scared developers who, we've established have plenty of spare time and are extremely enthusiastic about handing this stuff over, they're just _terrified_ of upstreaming in Linux. No?

People lie in surveys. They lie in an anonymous psychology study. They lie in a corporate satisfaction survey. A properly conducted census actually has to be post-processed to compensate for this, or it won't reflect reality. Surveys aren't useless, but you should take them with a large dose of salt.

We have an actual data point from the real world, and it doesn't match what we might think we should learn from the survey. That doesn't automatically mean the survey is wrong, but it means we should be far more cautious than it seems you're willing to be. It isn't my goal to "treat people like shit" even the inevitable LWN guests who don't have a dime to pay for a subscription but do want to put in their tuppence about how Linux ought to be run. However I do care about working code. So show me the code.