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| 9 | AristotlePagaltzis | 1 | An outspoken dispute in a public forum such as a news group or email list, with usually about half a dozen fierce combatants. |
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| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 3 | Reason and logic seem to go out the door, and "ad hominem" attacks are plentiful. GodwinsLaw is sometimes (unwittingly) adhered to. |
| 3 | MatthiasDallmeier | 4 | |
| 9 | AristotlePagaltzis | 5 | Note that a FlameWar, which is defined by the manner of discussion, is not the same as a ReligiousWar, which is defined by the topic of conversation. Naturally, though, they frequently overlap. |
| 3 | MatthiasDallmeier | 6 | |
| 7 | One [famous flame war | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html] was opened by AndrewTanenbaum (a well-known ComputerScience professor who wrote many books about, among other topics, OperatingSystem design, as well as writing much of [Minix]) by a posting with the subject "''LINUX is obsolete''". See if you can spot any hostile language in this brief quote from [Linus | LinusTorvalds]' first reply:'''' | ||
| 5 | StuartYeates | 8 | |
| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 9 | <pre> |
| 9 | AristotlePagaltzis | 10 | Re 2: your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a |
| 11 | good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. I can only hope (and | ||
| 12 | assume) that Amoeba doesn't suck like minix does. | ||
| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 13 | </pre> |
| 14 | |||
| 15 | !! See Also | ||
| 3 | MatthiasDallmeier | 16 | |
| 9 | AristotlePagaltzis | 17 | * ReligiousWar |
| 18 | * GodwinsLaw | ||
| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 19 | * [http://www.flamewarforum.com/], a site decicated to [FlameWar]s, where flaming is encouraged in the interest of passionate and entertaining debate. |
| 20 | * [http://hates-software.com/], a mailing list dedicated to flaming hateful software |
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