Re: [PATCH 2/2] Move sequencer to builtin

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2013, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2mu4Q4Gb0f+hsifaDP8CnT2VNHZO7e6dYvYhiyH30PQQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7gi1eupf.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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>> It is not bad behavior. It is bad behavior *in your opinion*,
>
> And in essentially everyone else on this list, it seems.

So? An opinion shared by a billion people is still an opinion, not a fact. To think otherwise is to fall in the argumentum ad populum fallacy.

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>> an opinion that wouldn't be shared by other projects, like the Linux
>> kernel.
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> Googling your name and LKML gives me this in the first page (addressed
> to you):
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> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/12/434
> "I'm stupider for just reading your email. Go away."
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/15/112
> "I'll make one more try at explaining to you, but then I'll just set my
> mail reader to ignore you, because judging by past performance (not
> just in this thread) you will just continue to argue."
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> I don't follow the lkml so maybe I've just been unlucky and Google
> didn't show me an accurate sample, but arguing that your behavior is
> welcome on the LKML seems weird.

Now you are committing two fallacies at the same time; argument from authority and hasty generalization.

Yes, Linus Torvalds lost his temper with me, he has done so with so many people that's hardly surprising. I still think he is wrong, but to prove it I need information that is not readily available, and it's not that important anyway.

That doesn't mean that Linus' opinion is shared by the list (or any other Linux mailing list); if you think so you are committing the hasty generalization fallacy.

And if you think Linus' opinion means something is a fact you commit the argument from authority fallacy.

None of this mean that my patches are not welcome in LKML, or any other Linux mailing list.

I repeat what Linus said:

Talk is cheap, show me the code.

-- 
Felipe Contreras