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I think the point is that in this purge of unpleasant or caustic geniuses, we're trading a meritocracy for mediocrity.

• threeseed 8y ago
  Surely people who are behaving immaturely could realise that their behaviour is affecting others negatively and do something about it. It's what happens to most people. Anyway I am not aware of a particular "purge" going on. Care to be more specific ?
  • debacle 8y ago
    When the guy in charge of the software steps away from the software named after him, something is wrong.
    • marcus_holmes 8y ago
      So if I start a project, and thousands of people come and contribute to it, spent millions of hours working on it, I can call any one of them a ducking idiot whenever I want, because it's my project and if you don't like it you can duck off? Because if so, I think I can see what's gone wrong...
      • debacle 8y ago
        There are probably fewer than 5 people that have contributed to open source software more than Linus Torvalds. Also, people are more than welcome to fork Linux and take it in a different direction.
    • threeseed 8y ago
      Being in charge does not excuse bad behaviour. It's the same argument that allowed people like Weinstein and Moonves to get away with their bad behaviour for so long. The fact is that open source projects rely on people. And we need those people to feel like they aren't going to have to tolerate bad behaviour just to be involved in the project.
      • debacle 8y ago
        You're comparing being mean on the Internet to sexual assault.