Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 11:00 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Successful workshops are always hot places by purslow
Parent article: After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)

> Linus has never been personal in his harsh language

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/12/434
> You're a fucking moron.

Took me about ten seconds to find that.

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 11:31 UTC (Thu) by jrigg (guest, #30848) [Link] (1 responses)

> Took me about ten seconds to find that

It took a search engine about ten seconds to lift that out of the context of over twenty years' worth of LKML posts. It would be more relevant to state what proportion of Linus' posts such comments represent.

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 11:47 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

I'll leave it up to purslow to revise their claim to something defensible.

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 18:32 UTC (Thu) by jmspeex (subscriber, #51639) [Link] (1 responses)

Just for fun, I decided to read the thread to figure out why it ultimately came to such insults. I have to say that while Linus (nor anyone else) should have responded that way, I can certainly see myself *thinking* exactly that (before taking a short break to allow for a toned-down reply). It got me thinking (in general) about what's the best way to deal with behaviour that despite being polite (words used) is also annoying (e.g. badgering).

Successful workshops are always hot places

Posted Sep 20, 2018 19:56 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link]

Personally: once I've explained my position clearly, and it's obvious to any careful reader that I have--I'd just stop responding. That's more effective for a lot of reasons, I think.