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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:29:19 -0500
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>, David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>,
stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sarah Sharp
<sarah.a.sharp@...ux.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.
--
Felipe Contreras
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