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Handled perfectly would be "No, reference bug #X, closing" and closing/locking the thread. Question gets answered, nobody gets insulted. Denigrating your commu
by falcolas 6y ago
Handled perfectly would be "No, reference bug #X, closing" and closing/locking the thread. Question gets answered, nobody gets insulted.
Denigrating your community as the "script kiddie peanut gallery" is, at best going to piss off your community and at worse make them less likely to work with you in the future.
- esgwpl 6y agoTo be fair to Poettering, someone accused the systemd devs of being on Google's payroll, if I were him I'd be annoyed as well.
- wtallis 6y ago> if I were him I'd be annoyed as well. Especially when he had to answer in the affirmative, that there is indeed a conflict of interest, but it's a really tiny one that hardly anyone would be bothered by.
- laumars 6y agoThe original question was stupid. We all get that. We’ve all suffered that on occasions at work. But that doesn’t justify his grossly unprofessional response.
- falcolas 6y agoGoogle has a well known, and well documented history of donating to open source projects to get their own products added as defaults. Combine with a for-profit company (RedHat) who does not disclose all of their financials (and that’s their prerogative), and it’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask.