From: Patrick Finnegan <pat@computer-refuge.org>
To: Tobias Hirning <Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Insults in the kernel-sources
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:39:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406141439.14365.pat@computer-refuge.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406141546.32777.Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de>
On Monday 14 June 2004 08:46, Tobias Hirning wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Insult??? Do you mean "bad words???" Who defines what words are
> > "good" or what words are "bad"?
>
> I mean something like this "the pcmcia-peoble are idiots".
> I think it's not good, that in the kernelsources are things like
> this, because Linux only develops itself because there are many
> people who mus work together and so they must be a little be polite.
Then you must not have read this mailing list for very long...
Being polite has this nasty tendancy of not helping get things done,
when compared with saying what you *really* think.
Pat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-14 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-10 18:53 Insults in the kernel-sources Tobias Hirning
2004-06-10 19:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-06-10 19:16 ` areversat
2004-06-10 19:11 ` Leon Woestenberg
2004-06-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 20:19 ` alan
2004-06-10 21:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:17 ` walt
2004-06-10 22:44 ` alan
2004-06-11 0:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-10 23:52 ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-10 23:58 ` Tim Hockin
2004-06-11 0:34 ` James Buchanan
2004-06-10 23:47 ` alan
2004-06-11 0:38 ` Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-11 0:07 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-06-10 23:41 ` alan
2004-06-11 8:45 ` Profanity " L A Walsh
2004-06-11 7:02 ` Insults " Måns Rullgård
2004-06-14 13:46 ` Tobias Hirning
2004-06-14 19:39 ` Patrick Finnegan [this message]
2004-06-10 19:23 ` viro
2004-06-10 20:04 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2004-06-11 15:43 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-06-12 2:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-12 6:37 ` John Bradford
2004-06-12 12:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-10 19:43 Sean Fao
2004-06-11 15:56 ` nardelli
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