> -----Original Message----- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Keith Edmunds > Sent: 15 January 2012 11:04 > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags (was: Re: Help! I'm > buying a laptop.)
[snip] > This is true of LUG lists in general, not just this one. It's interesting that this should crop up now - or coincidental at the least. Several years ago, I used to read Alan Cox's blog - though I confess I couldn't make much sense of it. His wife's blog was quite interesting too. He stopped several years ago but yesterday, I thought it might be fun to see what he's doing now so hunted around a bit and came across [1] via wikipedia. I wasn't part of the original "incident" (or whatever you want to call it) on this list but [1] really shows just how things can escalate over email. Here we have the grand daddy of the entire OS which spawned our list IMHO really having a go at someone for whom if I was ever mentioned in the same breath I'd be satisfied. I don't take sides as I don't know either AC or LT personally - but what I will say is I suspect all of this could have been sorted out with a phone call and a beverage of some description. Email is great - but by goodness things can escalate out of hand - and that is not a backhanded criticism of anyone on this list - just meant to show that even the "greatest" of us can have a barney over email. If you read other articles it seems that AC got so fed up - he walked away from kernel hacking. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
