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Perhaps for some. Others might realize that humans make mistakes. Marco overreacted; there is no question. He made a poor decision. This is not something I am a
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
Perhaps for some. Others might realize that humans make mistakes. Marco overreacted; there is no question. He made a poor decision. This is not something I am aware of him having done with regards to Instapaper at any other time (I could be wrong; I don't follow Instapaper super-closely, but I would have expected to see it here like this one).
So a first mistake, with a reasonable explanation, a sincere apology and a promise not to repeat (my reading; yours may differ) is "too little, too late"?
- FrankBooth 14y agoAbusing your power as a developer for a personal vendetta is not acceptable, and the fact that it happened demonstrates a lack of taste and self control that suggests one should not trust that person in the future. An apology doesn't fix this, something more is needed to repair trust. Making the opt-out list public might be a start - one wonders how many other sites the developer has used this tactic against.
- teh_klev 14y agoI agree, Roy Fielding could take a leaf out of Marco's book and admit he was wrong too: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f64300dfd98859dee8d0 https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f... That's another example of abusing your trusted position. Just because you're having a bun fight somewhere else doesn't give you the right introduce "fuck you" changes to your app that affect end users.
- Johngibb 14y agoWow, I hadn't heard about that Apache situation. That's not ok....