On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:31:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:11:25AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > No, the problem is that certain of our French developers *think* that the > > > rest of the world just doesn't understand their French humor and that > > > something has been lost in translation. > > > > When the reality is that we understand it just fine, and think they're > > > assholes for it. > > > > It's only a cultural difference if you're counting Kindergarten as a > > > "culture". > > > I find this strange, given that not too long ago you categorized the > > participants of debian-legal as "wankers". > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00174.html > > > Joss' messages can be understood as pretty bad humor. Was your message > > above also meant as a joke? > > No. What part of that message would lead you to think I was joking? Nothing lead me to that, but then I'm not a native English speaker, so I may overlook subtleties.
> > Or do you need to let of some steam here, because such behaviour is > > unacceptable on Ubuntu lists? > > There's no ubuntu-legal list infested with leeches who think it's their > business to tell Ubuntu how to interpret its own license requirements > without ever having contributed a line of code to Ubuntu, so I don't think > the analogy holds. Sorry, but I don't think the idea of 'politeness' differs so much over different mailing lists. Either you don't insult people or you do. And my point wasn't about debian-legal, obviously. But rather about people insulting people one day and then finger-pointing at other people insulting other people the next day. If you expect a certain behaviour, the best start is showing it yourself. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org