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I experienced a twist on this. A guy who had very different aesthetic taste wanted me to merge some patches. He got real entitled about it, eventually I banned

I experienced a twist on this. A guy who had very different aesthetic taste wanted me to merge some patches. He got real entitled about it, eventually I banned him. THEN he did the "appeal to Twitter" and made malicious edits to the project page on wikipedia. He made a huge stink and wasted hours of both of our time. It was unreal! I wish I was joking. I wrote about it, discussing my motivations for open source: http://charlesleifer.com/blog/your-idea-sucks/ http://charlesleifer.com/blog/your-idea-sucks/

danso 8y ago
A. Damn, I would think a CTO would know to quit this dispute and fork his own purportedly superior version, if his company's survival is so dependent on it. B. Really like the elegant style (visually, though the writing is also elegant!) of your blog.
glogla 8y ago
You shouldn't have hidden his name. We should know who it is, in case we meet him or something.
- coleifer 8y ago
  Then I'd be doing exactly what he did, just dressed up a little in a blog instead of twitter.
  - glogla 8y ago
    No. Complaining about horrible behavior is not horrible behavior about itself.