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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:46 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 02:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:09:45 -0400 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > the lastet crap code from the corporate drones.
> >
> > That's about the fourth time you've made this assertion. It is pointless,
> > it is of no use to anyone and it is unjustly insulting to a large number of
> > kernel developers.
>
> No, it isn't. Christoph can be insulting sometimes, but that wasn't it.
>
> Anyone who thinks that Christoph was referring to them obviously
> identifies _themselves_ as 'corporate drone who posts crap code'.
> Why is it insulting for Christoph to opine that his time is better spent
> on reviewing something fun?
>
> I find it extremely annoying when people claim offence on behalf of
> unspecified third parties, when no real adult actually _is_ so wet as to
> have actually been offended.

Not so. There is a habit of treating corporate developers as somehow
inferior to the purer old-timers. I know - people have told me. Quite
often. And for various reasons, those people feel limited in their options
for standing up for themselves.



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