Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:29:19 -0500 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> >> > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. >> >> Depends on details of your definition of abuse. >> >> > So we are down to the definition of verbal abuse. >> > The Oxford dictionary gives me: >> > >> > "speak to (someone) in an insulting and offensive way" >> >> Insufficient details to tell if the statement above is correct. >> Insulting and offensive to *whom*? > > It's not helpful to look at a dictionary definition of verbal abuse, > because it's much too short. > > Here's a much longer description of verbally abusive behaviors: > > http://outofthefog.net/CommonBehaviors/VerbalAbuse.html
That definition starts with this:
"Any kind of repeated pattern of inappropriate, derogatory or threatening speech directed at one individual by another."
The key word being *REPEATED*. I don't see Linus *repeatedly* insulting Mauro (or any other developer), under that definition, it's not verbal abuse.
I don't like that definition, but even in that one your claim doesn't stand.
-- Felipe Contreras
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