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Based on all the "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen this." comments I think the author should clarify that its not just the OS project lea
by Zelphyr 14y ago
Based on all the "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen this." comments I think the author should clarify that its not just the OS project leaders who are guilty of this. The smugness of core developers, and even contributors is worthy of a South Park episode.
If you're a young developer, or seasoned for that matter, and the urge to put down the work of someone else tugs at you, consider this;
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steve Bourne, inventor of the Bourne Shell (as in, /bin/sh on every Unix system ever). Here is a guy who was literally sitting next to the guys who invented Unix WHILE THEY INVENTED IT. And all this time later he's surprisingly humble, friendly, and genuinely interested in what other, younger developers are doing.
If a guy who has earned the right to be smug several times over treats people with respect, what right do we have to do otherwise?