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So it's not that you've never seen this behavior in your tenure as " a contributor to open source projects for almost ten years", it's just that you think toxic

So it's not that you've never seen this behavior in your tenure as " a contributor to open source projects for almost ten years", it's just that you think toxic behavior is acceptable. That's, at least, a more intellectually honest position than your previous claim. There are a lot of ways to reject a patch on the grounds of cleanness and efficiency that don't involve deriding the contributor's work as "BSD crap" that only helps people who "deserve to be punished". Drepper was a monumental asshole, and he deeply hurt the glibc project for years.

debacle 14y ago
Toxic? Really? Lighten up, Francis.
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- wpietri 14y ago
  Toxic is exactly the correct word. It poisons the community and kills morale. If an employee of mine were ever using that tone around the office, we would be making a quick trip to a small conference room to discuss appropriate behavior toward colleagues. If it kept up, they'd be gone. Because somebody would eventually be leaving over that behavior, and I'd rather it be the perp than the victims.
boboblong 14y ago
>it's just that you think toxic behavior is acceptable. You think that calling someone's idea crappy is unacceptable? In what sense of the word? Are you saying that it should be illegal to make fun of someone's ideas?