Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bloat thread | From | Nat Lanza <> | Date | 01 Feb 1999 11:42:40 -0500 |
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Simon Kenyon <simon@koala.ie> writes:
> why is everyone being so rude to this guy > all he asked for was a way to build a kernel on his machine, which > is rather small > he has a point
It's not just _what_ you ask, it's _how_ you ask it. If he'd showed up and just asked about building Linux on small machines, that would probably have been fine. But he didn't. Instead, he started out a bit hostile; the kernel hadn't grown to include more features, it was bloated. People didn't just disagree with him, they were closed-minded.
Yes, some people wnet overboard in their responses. Not everybody did, however. Really, on a list this size, you have to expect that at least a few people will flame you for almost every action. The key to getting anything done over a public mailing list is to learn to ignore those flames. Apparently he couldn't; that's not really linux-kernel's problem to deal with.
Instead of dealing with the flames rationally, he lashed out and upset even more people. That, combined with his whiny "since you upset me I won't share all the cool code I've read" retort pretty much guaranteed that he wasn't going to get any useful responses.
He had a useful question, but the way he went about asking it could have been a lot better.
--nat
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