Drepper was an asshole and people eventually routed around him, yes. The system worked. What people forget, too, is that Drepper's problem wasn't just an obnoxi

Drepper was an asshole and people eventually routed around him, yes. The system worked. What people forget, too, is that Drepper's problem wasn't just an obnoxious personal style, but a ridiculous level of technical conservativism that led to critical bugs remaining unfixed for years. It was the latter problem that eventually prompted people to fork glibc, not the former.