On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:58:46AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > We could even go a little further and try to avoid rudeness on the > mailing lists. I recently reviewed some of the conversations with RMS > on debian-legal regarding the GFDL. Several people were rude and > uncivil to RMS, even sarcastic and abusive. Such rudeness is sabotage, > we should not tolerate it. RMS was not rude to anyone in that > discussion, even when they richly deserved it.
I found RMS to be extremely rude and dismissive in the GFDL discussions. (His outright refusal to comminicate with Branden Robinson comes to mind.) Tolerating that without being rude is admirable--knowing my own limits, I had to stop reading his posts at times, to avoid it--but within some limits (which, to be sure, were probably exceeded in parts of that discussion--probably the "sarcastic and abusive" above), I just can't bring myself to condemn those who we are unwilling to ignore it completely. -- Glenn Maynard
