Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML

Felipe Contreras
2013-07-18T00:29:19Z

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sarah Sharp
<sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>
>> > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody.
>>
>> Depends on details of your definition of abuse.
>>
>> > So we are down to the definition of verbal abuse.
>> > The Oxford dictionary gives me:
>> >
>> > "speak to (someone) in an insulting and offensive way"
>>
>> Insufficient details to tell if the statement above is correct.
>> Insulting and offensive to *whom*?
>
> It's not helpful to look at a dictionary definition of verbal abuse,
> because it's much too short.
>
> Here's a much longer description of verbally abusive behaviors:
>
> http://outofthefog.net/CommonBehaviors/VerbalAbuse.html

That definition starts with this:

"Any kind of repeated pattern of inappropriate, derogatory or
threatening speech directed at one individual by another."

The key word being *REPEATED*. I don't see Linus *repeatedly*
insulting Mauro (or any other developer), under that definition, it's
not verbal abuse.

I don't like that definition, but even in that one your claim doesn't stand.

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Felipe Contreras