[SirStephen]

Read that in the news today. Linus Torvalds (founder of Linux) is attacked on the kernel mailing list by female developer Sarah Sharp (Linus Torvalds has to clean up his act and stop swearing). He really has balls and reacts quite well - his only fault is imho, that he didnt just ignore her (this is what I would have done - not giving her that attention). He doesnt seem to understand, whats really going on here and arguing is completely a waste of time here.

First she mailed him private. Seems she didnt get the response she expected, so she made the thing public on the kernel mailing list. Same outcome - Torvalds reacts in a good alpha way. Now she wants to bring it on the agenda of some developer conference - where the white knights are waiting to do the hard work..
See the pattern.. its always the same procedure..

http://news.techeye.net/chips/linus-torv...weary-spat

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2

Quote:

Bullshit.

The thing is, the "victim card" is exactly about trying to enforce
your particular expectations on others, and trying to do so in a very
particular way. It's the old "think of the children" argument. And
it's bogus. Calling things "professional" is just more of the same -
trying to enforce some kind of convention on others by trying to claim
that it's the only acceptable way.

[...]

Do you think you might be interested in *that* kind of discussion
instead of the "you are abusing me" kind of discussion?

Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm
not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearign a bathrobe. The
same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to
buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and
backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because
THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all
kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their
normal urges in unnatural ways.

Linus