On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In fact, even in the pull request that's referenced here, Linus, you > were polite but firm in your first two responses. When you're perfectly > capable of doing that, why spoil it by adding insults? Umm. Notice how the "Joseph" I replied to had deleted all the comments he wrote? That should tell you something. I smacked down a troll. If I was polite to you all those years ago, and I was polite but firm in the two first responses, please give me credit for when I smack somebody down. There may be a reason for it. The fact that the person deleted his messages (or github deleted them for him - I have no idea what their comment policy is) and you cannot see that context any more online should not make you think that I suddenly went crazy. Btw, since I get the github messages in email too, I have a copy. Joseph replied to those "polite but firm" messages where I explained exactly *why* I don't want to bother with github pull requests with this gem: "I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up..." Quite frankly, I think I was quite polite enough. Exactly *because* I had been polite but firm before that injection. The fact is, I don't suffer fools nicely. I call it like I see it, and I called him a moron for entering the discussion with a totally content-free comment. Feel free to disagree. Maybe you see some value in the troll comment? And I somehow suspect that your message that I replied to back in 1999 was somehow more relevant? Yes? No? Linus -- 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