Re:A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source
by hyperpape on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:07PM
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Debatable. Linus’s original email is unclear. “I can live with them” is badly ambiguous between:
1. Bad, but I won’t swear at you.
2. I’m not sure what I think, might be ok but needs more discussion
3. Merge them, but I want to swear about the proposed reason, because it’s bad.
I think 3 is the least likely, but nothing in the email unambiguously rules it out. I think 2 is the most likely interpretation.
There’s something funny about people saying “Linus’s style is valuable because he makes things clear” in response to a post where we can’t agree on what he meant.
1. Bad, but I won’t swear at you.
2. I’m not sure what I think, might be ok but needs more discussion
3. Merge them, but I want to swear about the proposed reason, because it’s bad.
I think 3 is the least likely, but nothing in the email unambiguously rules it out. I think 2 is the most likely interpretation.
There’s something funny about people saying “Linus’s style is valuable because he makes things clear” in response to a post where we can’t agree on what he meant.