Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat

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.

Comments

Links to the patches?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone have direct links to the patches?

Must be...

[Astat1ne]

Must be that time of month again for Linus...

Re:Please take care of Linus

[_vSyncBomb]

You fucking etiquette Nazi. How dare you say that Linus isn't the nicest person around?

huh?

[User 956]

Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,'

What exactly is an "interface Nazi"? Is that someone that develops a GUI that encourages concentration?

Re:huh?

[mollymoo]

The Anti-Defamation League are a bunch of anti-Nazi Nazis.

Re:huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't get me started about "carpentry neocons." Sure they may claim to be traditional by rejecting the screws and nails the "progressive carpenters" are constantly touting, claming to be truly "conservative" by only using mortise-and-tenon joints and wooden pegs as fasteners. But have you ever heard of one of these so called "conservatives" take a stand against synthetic wood glues? No Sir! You haven't. Not one of them will admit that the only acceptable glue is made of boiled hides and hooves. A truly conservative carpenter will only use adhesives made of dead animals.

not that extreme, really

[game kid]

They just try to replace Save As... with SEIG FILE! whenever they see it in source strings.

Re:not that extreme, really

[grolschie]

Uhm, are you sure you didn't mean "Sieg Fail"?

No, he meant "siegfault". :-)

Re:Interface Nazis.

[chunky shit salsa]

they're only egomaniacs sitting alone in cheap condo in a mid-income neighborhood, "chatting" with others on a Saturday night, likely inside an online game. as you take them to a social setting with women, you see clearly they are just shut-in losers and dorks, and not worth time, conversation, or even recognition of them being alive. let's kill them all. kill them all by throwing the duck sauce packets filling up your fridge from the leftover chineese takeout. throw those packets hard, my friends. they'll break and cover those losers with sweet yellow duck sauce. then the ducks will come to eat that sweet duck sauce. they will try to fly away, but their feet will be stuck in the sauce. they'll lift up the dorks and take them to that island with all the fat ugly people. once we have enough, it'll sink into the ocean and that'll be that. rock the vote!!!

Re:Please take care of Linus

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd not want to, and I'd have you out for coffee.

Speak for yourself and hand me the stick...

Re:Users *are* usually idiots.

[rbanffy]

Would you care to explain this?

I am really curious.

Re:What I don't understand is

[Zoolander]

Git.

Re:You know something?

[wirelessbuzzers]

Well, look on the bright side. At least it wasn't Linus vs Theo.

Re:Please take care of Linus

[dangitman]

If this were real life, I'd not want to, and I'd have you out for coffee.

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:Please take care of Linus

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh please, if Torvalds is autistic, then I'm a borderline pyschopath.

Sincerely,

Hans Reiser

Re:You know something?

[alienmole]

They all come off as squabbling children. This is FOSS' finest?

As long as no-one throws any chairs, it's all good.

Re:Please take care of Linus

[charlieman]

Richard Stallman really deserves the most credit for the Linux operating system environment

When did it become the Linux Operating System?

Well, now we can credit Linux for helping out at Gnome :)

Re:Interface Nazis.

[linvir]

That was some epic shit. I want whatever you're drinking.

I was called a Nazi in Godwin's presence

[asterion]

I know Mike Godwin from school (UTexas) and last year, after drunken reunion party of sorts, talked turned to Iraq. Discussion grew heated, and someone at the table called me Nazi (from which you may infer my opinion and/or drunkenness). Mike Godwin, sitting next to me, said "Hello?!? I'm right here! You can't violate my law in my presence!" and declared me the winner. But I don't think he meant it - he thought I was a Nazi too, but couldn't bring himself call me one. I think he settled for "warmonger". But he's a very nice guy.

Re:Please take care of Linus

[pnewhook]

I think your geek status on Slashdot went down a bit as soon as you said 'wife'

Re:Please take care of Linus

[Anonymous Coward]

It's ok, there are ways to solve that...

Re:Interface Nazis.

[OriginalArlen]

People who advocate the killing of other human beings should be banned off this board, plain and simple. No, people who advocate the killing of other human beings should be lined up - blindfold - last fag - POP! POP! POP! (citizen smiff)

Re:Please take care of Linus

[Lord Apathy]

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...