On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:37 PM, alex kot <[email protected]> wrote:
> The public shaming was a plus. TL;DR: Shaming ideas = Good. Shaming people = Bad. Public "shaming" and harshness of ideas is great. But Linus also has a history of shaming people, which I don't agree is conducive for good collaboration. You ever notice how there are not a whole lot of female kernel developers? How about a whole lot of other minorities? http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/ Sharp in the above article isn't perfect and hasn't convinced me we need a "professional" community. But the point I think she makes and Linus doesn't get is that ideas deserve to go through the shredder. The ones that remain are likely pretty good. But people don't deserve a shredder. I can't read the lkml link as the site is unresponsive right now, so I don't know exactly how this particular instance went down.
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