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Comment by jnbiche | Hacker News Reader

Oh come on, sexist? Did you read her exchanges in the comments? She's just another Torvalds, with respective to her attitude and people skills. Why shouldn't we call her on it, if we criticize Linus?

She may be a brilliant researcher, but being aggressive and insulting toward others will only hinder her attempts to redefine the security landscape.

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if someone said to linus

"given that kernels are your research project, i expected that you'd already tested whatever you're talking about on wayland and contacted its developers about security holes,"

and he replied curtly, i don't think anyone on hacker news would be "calling him out." the idea that her tone is "too aggressive" is highly suspect. it is not unusual to express ideas as if you believe them, nor to conduct yourself as if your blog posts needn't be written in the tone of My-First-Job-Interview or Visiting-My-Conservative-Grandmother-In-The-Hospital.

I think the kind of people who are bothered about Linus' tone are likely to be bothered about similar things in other people. For my part I've never found Linus particularly offensive and I'm equally puzzled by people who disagree with Joanna's style too. Perhaps some people are just too easily offended.

You would be wrong. Torvalds gets some regular hate-machine action here every couple of months. Someone finds a frustrated mailing list message of his and posts it out of context, and half of the resulting comments are about how Torvalds really shouldn't be a project lead with an attitude like that, or how he's damaging open source, or all sorts of pronouncements on his behaviour.

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