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.

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Re:Please take care of Linus

[Overly Critical Guy]

Off-topic, so off goes my karma bonus.

If you'll forgive my saying this, you sound like one of those people who responds to every criticism of Bush by bringing up something Clinton did.

People do this to bring up double-standards of the criticizer. Clinton did nearly everything today's anti-war Democrats criticize Bush for, and pointing that out is simply making a point about self-serving politics. It's the same reason people point out that every single Democratic leader--Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, etc.--were in favor of a troop surge as recently as last December. Then Bush brought it up, and suddenly the Democrats are against it.