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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The systemd folks are fine - it's all the other Linux devs (Linus, too) that |
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> are the real problem: |
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I think we're all part of the problem to an extent. Many of us |
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contribute to the flames, and many more of us contribute by tolerating |
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them. |
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Sometimes Lennart contributes his own flames to the mix, but I don't |
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think that really makes his comments any less valid. I've been around |
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Gentoo long enough to see several cycles of people ragequitting over |
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this kind of nonsense, and fortunately some do return. We probably |
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also receive in contributors who ragequit elsewhere, and other |
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projects take on those we abandon along the way. It is a bit sad, to |
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be honest, that despite the fact that we all share some common |
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passions for FOSS we still manage to drive each other up the wall at |
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times. |
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Somebody once commented at a Linux User Group meeting I attended that |
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if somebody came up with a "cure" for Aspergers it would destroy FOSS |
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overnight, and maybe this has something to do with it. :) |
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When I am confronted with this sort of stuff I always recall some |
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words of wisdom from the 90s - "Cypherpunks write code." In the end |
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we can complain about this or that, but the biggest lasting impact you |
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can have on an FOSS project is writing code. When I think about |
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that, I find myself spending less time tearing down people who are |
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actually writing code, and more time writing code myself. |
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Rich |
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