* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Sarah Sharp > <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Oh, FFS, I just called out on private email for "playing the victim > > card". I will repeat: this is not just about me, or other minorities. > > I should not have to ask for professional behavior on the mailing lists. > > Professional behavior should be the default. > > [...] > > 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. Sarah, that's a pretty potent argument by Linus, that "acting professionally" risks replacing a raw but honest culture with a polished but dishonest culture - which is harmful to developing good technology. That's a valid concern. What's your reply to that argument? Thanks, Ingo -- 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