On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 10:45:07AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> >I don't see any problem with what Linus said and how he said it.
>
> +1
>
> Watched the video. He was invited to come to engage the debian community,
> and his style is well known. Debian could choose in future not to invite him
> (or anyone who might not speak in a way that everyone in the community
> likes) but I think it would be Debian who would be more harmed by operating
> in an echo chamber. This is not the same thing as enforcing a CoC on the
> mailing lists, and frankly I'm not convinced this would have been a clear
> violation even there. He wasn't making dropping in specifically to make
> distracting personal attacks, he was responding to a specific question about
> *his own* motivations and expressing *his own* beliefs that lead to him to
> act the way that he does. It would be incredibly stupid and
> counterproductive for the project to invite someone to candidly engage in
> discussion involving their own motivations, then ban them because some of us
> don't like the answer.
>
> Mike Stone
+1
Thanks.
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