On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It is not bad behavior. It is bad behavior *in your opinion*, > > And in essentially everyone else on this list, it seems. So? An opinion shared by a billion people is still an opinion, not a fact. To think otherwise is to fall in the argumentum ad populum fallacy. >> an opinion that wouldn't be shared by other projects, like the Linux >> kernel. > > Googling your name and LKML gives me this in the first page (addressed > to you): > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/12/434 > "I'm stupider for just reading your email. Go away." > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/15/112 > "I'll make one more try at explaining to you, but then I'll just set my > mail reader to ignore you, because judging by past performance (not > just in this thread) you will just continue to argue." > > I don't follow the lkml so maybe I've just been unlucky and Google > didn't show me an accurate sample, but arguing that your behavior is > welcome on the LKML seems weird. Now you are committing two fallacies at the same time; argument from authority and hasty generalization. Yes, Linus Torvalds lost his temper with me, he has done so with so many people that's hardly surprising. I still think he is wrong, but to prove it I need information that is not readily available, and it's not that important anyway. That doesn't mean that Linus' opinion is shared by the list (or any other Linux mailing list); if you think so you are committing the hasty generalization fallacy. And if you think Linus' opinion means something is a fact you commit the argument from authority fallacy. None of this mean that my patches are not welcome in LKML, or any other Linux mailing list. I repeat what Linus said: Talk is cheap, show me the code. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html