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The author is coming from a point of view that I don't know if anyone else in the OSS world holds, and that the Internet doesn't seem to agree with. Without har
by debacle 14y ago
The author is coming from a point of view that I don't know if anyone else in the OSS world holds, and that the Internet doesn't seem to agree with. Without hard evidence, he's talking out his defecation hole.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoWhat's your background Debacle? This guy currently contributes to several OS projects http://mutedsolutions.com/about http://mutedsolutions.com/about, https://github.com/derickbailey https://github.com/derickbailey and has apparently been a developer for over 30 years in a range of environments. Whilst I don't find it impossible to imagine that he's made up the problem it seems doubtful on balance - what would he gain? He says he's fallen in to the trap himself of making fun of others [apparently] honest contributions. Yes, that's not an argument but this >Without hard evidence, he's talking out his defecation hole. // is fallacious reasoning. It is not the case that failure to present examples of pathological behaviour means that behaviour is a fiction. If your position is true and indeed he is literally the only person to believe that sometimes OSS leaders have made fun of the code of other [attempted] contributors then it's interesting to speculate why that might be so. One possibility of course is that those who deny it's a problem simply can't see it despite it being there. Also, if we can accept him to be a "leader" then we now know at least one person that he's being critical of ...