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