On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, alex kot <[email protected]> wrote: > This has nothing to do with Linus being biased.
Except, that's not how psychology works. Your biases don't stop being relevant. Anytime you're interacting with people, your biases matter. The person in question is not a female or a minority. His approach is the > same when it came to Sharp. Here I totally disagree. With Sharp, Linus implied violent action. Not just insulted. When you're a woman on the internet, violent and rape threats are already too common. It's frankly just an asshole thing to do. In this case no one was threatened. It was pretty much, can’t write good code that won’t break the kernel get > out. In this case I agree. Other than the "primadonna" ad hominem, he stayed pretty much on point. > I don’t know why that whole thing with Sharp blew up. I don't want to be seen as agreeing with Sharp whole-heartedly. I don't think stopping people from saying "Shut the FUCK UP" is helpful. But Sharp was pointing out multiple things. In which, it's really unhelpful, dare I say unexcellent, to insult people, or worse, threaten them. > An example if I am an owner of a lock company and a person came in and > used cheap metal by going against the standard production methods. Now > these locks are easily broken into. I don’t care who you are you are going > to reprimanded. So two things here. If your reprimand stays ONLY on telling them off for using crappy metal, then you've fallen under my mock ideas = good part. If you tell the person they're worthless and not worth your time, you've fallen under the asshole category. Ideas = fair game. People = deserving of at least some basic respect. Second. You may benefit from learning about things like micro-aggressions which is a field of psychology that shows that rarely do people intend to treat minorities different, even though in practice they do. That's fairly off topic though. My biggest point is that Linus is not a god, and should get some push back on some of his more abusive behavior. This particular instance wasn't really that bad IMHO, but he certainly doesn't have a perfect record. As for the actual topic, I don't think verbal "harshness" is the anecdote for drama. I don't think it necessarily makes it worse, but it certainly doesn't always help. In fact, Linus's reply only served to increase the drama of the situation. He may have made the decision, but the drama surrounding it is certainly far from over.
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