Re:A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
by UncleMeat on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:22PM
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People have done science to answer your last question. In general the answer is no.
Re:A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
by davidkuhta on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:26PM
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Do you have any references? I'd be interested to read them.
Re:A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
by hitekker on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:07AM
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I took note of the “Mr torvalds or Mr Rogers” example. It was clever and I think the truth underlying it is that for an idea to survive its circumstances, it must be shepherded by certain kinds of personalities.
Re:A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
by davidkuhta on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:42PM
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Exactly.
I'll add, you accurately used the word shepherded and I thought, "I imagine there are times when sheep aren't too pleased to be handled by a crook". Maybe the Kernel Mailing List is Linus's crook...
> It [the rewrite] has 43% as many words, but loses none of the meaning. It's still forceful and unambiguous.
Yet, I found the rewrite to be feeble and ambivalent.
> If you were in the "I'm afraid that being nicer would hurt Linux" group, do you think that this email is worse? Yes.
I wanted to add one additional question. Are there environments where ad hominem and disrespect are actually important cultivators of competency and reverence for the nature of the underlying task. Might there be instances where the collective is better off with Mr. Torvalds than Mr. Rogers?