Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat 828
lisah writes "The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list suggested that Torvalds use GNOME for a month before making such pronouncements. Torvalds, never one to back down from a challenge, simply turned around and submitted patches to GNOME and then told the list, '...let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code.' After lobbing that over the fence, Torvalds concluded his comments by saying, 'Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
Links to the patches? (Score:1, Funny)
Must be... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:5, Funny)
huh? (Score:5, Funny)
What exactly is an "interface Nazi"? Is that someone that develops a GUI that encourages concentration?
not that extreme, really (Score:5, Funny)
They just try to replace Save As... with SEIG FILE! whenever they see it in source strings.
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interface Nazis. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself and hand me the stick...
Re:Users *are* usually idiots. (Score:4, Funny)
I am really curious.
Re:What I don't understand is (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You know something? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Being made into coffee sounds less pleasant than being hit with a stick. Oy! The grinding and the scalding and the hot hot hot! Heuven glavin!
Re:huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely,
Hans Reiser
Re:not that extreme, really (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You know something? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:3, Funny)
Well, now we can credit Linux for helping out at Gnome
Re:Interface Nazis. (Score:4, Funny)
I was called a Nazi in Godwin's presence (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interface Nazis. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Please take care of Linus (Score:3, Funny)
I've did something like that. Woke up one morning pissing blood. Went WebMD and the next thing you know I had bladder cancer and was dieing. Turned out I was only passing a kidney stone but 24 hours later I was wishing I was dead...