Bah. Got my post flagged because I was too lazy to strip all the links from a quotation from a wiki article. Paging Michael!
That said, I should amend it and, since I can't amend an unapproved post, here's the amendment early:
That said, I should amend it and, since I can't amend an unapproved post, here's the amendment early:
...that said, the thrust of the problem is definitely a fixation on ignoring how Torvalds is attacking and insulting the argument, methodology, and conclusion rather than the person making them.
"Attack the argument, not the person making it" is the classic statement about how to argue properly.
"Attack the argument, not the person making it" is the classic statement about how to argue properly.
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