The day I lost respect for Lennart Poettering, was when a user reported a bug[0] that starting pulseaudio (which he authored) gave a vulgar error message and hi

The day I lost respect for Lennart Poettering, was when a user reported a bug[0] that starting pulseaudio (which he authored) gave a vulgar error message and his response was simply "Sorry, but please don't waste my time, will you?"[1]. It wasn't as if the user was doing anything exotic, just opening it: $ pulseaudio W: main.c: D-Bus name org.pulseaudio.Server already taken. Weird shit! In the end Ubuntu carried a patch specifically to remove it. I thought it was a real shame he thought that it was both appropriate to do in the first place, and acceptable to be that dismissive to a polite bug report. Doesn't surprise me he later won a Pwnie award[2] for his bad handling of bugs, specifically security. I'd recommend giving them a read! [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/444400 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/44... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101129202632/http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/672 https://web.archive.org/web/20101129202632/http://pulseaudio... [2] https://pwnies.com/archive/2017/winners/#lamestvendor https://pwnies.com/archive/2017/winners/#lamestvendor