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| kikinovak Sep 11, 2013 5:36 PM EDT |
We folks from the North and from the East don't share your anglo-saxon puritanism. Hence the unavoidable culture clashes. Torvalds' rants seem rather sane to me. |
| Bob_Robertson Sep 12, 2013 9:16 AM EDT |
> your anglo-saxon puritanism That Puritanical Holier-than-Thou attitude has been the cause of millions of dead over the last 400 years, all "for their own good". > Torvalds' rants seem rather sane to me. Indeed, that pesky idea of Freedom of Speech. |
| gus3 Sep 12, 2013 5:17 PM EDT |
I stand by my point. Rants don't need to include death wishes, and those who express them can be held liable in the event someone acts on the words. ("Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?") |
| JaseP Sep 13, 2013 5:44 PM EDT |
Only those with Aspergers would take his "threats" or "death wishes" seriously... Linus may be a poster child for the politically incorrect, but he's not a psychotic despot... |
| DrGeoffrey Sep 13, 2013 6:00 PM EDT |
On the other hand, I've met more than my fair of Windows users who might be... Correlation or causal relationship? You decide. |
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