-----Message d'origine----- De : Theodore Ts'o [mailto:ty...@mit.edu]
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:14:28PM +0000, Thibault, Daniel wrote: > > > > In a project the size of Debian, inevitably there will be people with > > whom you may disagree, or find it difficult to cooperate. Accept that, but > > even so, remain respectful. > > Disagreement is no excuse for poor behaviour or personal attacks, and a > > community in which people feel threatened is not a healthy community. > > (end quote) > > > > The man page paragraph in question is certainly not respectful of people > > who disagree with you. Why insist on keeping inflammatory rhetoric in the > > man page? > > The paragraph is does not say anything dispectful of the _people_, unless you > think "politically correct" is disrespectful. What is being mocked is the > *terms*. There's a difference. > > - Ted An awfully thin difference, indeed. If every other contributor uses his man pages (or other software components) as a soapbox, things will eventually degenerate. For the sake of universal goodwill, I ask you one last time to consider rewriting the paragraph in a more neutral tone. There is nothing wrong in expressing your preference for the power-of-two interpretation of metric prefixes, but you need not resort to name-calling. As for "politically correct", I think it's just inaccurate. The arguments for keeping a single meaning for the metric prefixes aren't political, they are quite the opposite. Politics delights in scrambling the meaning of words, while scientists and engineers insist on agreed-upon definitions and terminology before opening any kind of debate. Daniel U. Thibault Protection des systèmes et contremesures (PSC) | Systems Protection & Countermeasures (SPC) Cyber sécurité pour les missions essentielles (CME) | Mission Critical Cyber Security (MCCS) RDDC - Centre de recherches de Valcartier | DRDC - Valcartier Research Centre 2459 route de la Bravoure Québec QC G3J 1X5 CANADA Vox : (418) 844-4000 x4245 Fax : (418) 844-4538 NAC : 918V QSDJ <http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=918V%20QSDJ> Gouvernement du Canada | Government of Canada <http://www.valcartier.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
