On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 12:23 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > BTW, I was amazed that you managed to get him have a much softer tone inr > > his last e-mail, you probably found a weakness here in his management > > process :-) > > Hey, I _like_ arguing, and "cursing" and "arguing" are actually not at > all the same thing. > > And I really don't tend to curse unless people are doing something > stupid and annoying. If people have concerns and questions that I feel > are valid, I'm more than happy to talk about it. > > I curse when there isn't any argument. The cursing happens for the > "you're so f*cking wrong that it's not even worth trying to make > logical arguments about it, because you have no possible excuse" case. > > .. and sometimes people surprise me and come back with a valid excuse > after all. "My whole family died in a tragic freak accident and my > pony got cancer, and I was distracted". ...At least with the recent SCOTUS ruling, if you took your pony to a vet you wouldn't have to worry about Hasbro suing him for patent infringement... > And then I might even tell them I'm sorry. > > No. Not really. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html