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Now you're attacking Brad for attacking Tom when he never personally attacked him. Brad isn't a "wanna-be blogger", at least as far as I know the man. He sent m
by tdavis 18y ago
Now you're attacking Brad for attacking Tom when he never personally attacked him. Brad isn't a "wanna-be blogger", at least as far as I know the man. He sent me a link to the post and said "I hope he changes some of the wording" -- he just wanted the god docs to accurately reflect the production status. That's all. Oh, and make millions of dollars off of all blog subscribers I'm sure he got as a result. That was sarcasm, by the way.
Brad never ripped on anything else Tom has done. He never even suggested that the state of the god docs reflected poorly on him as a developer or a person. He was merely supplying information and venting frustration over the previous six months he spent attempting to get Tom's product to work properly. Hell, he wasn't even mad that it was (for him) an incomplete, non-functioning product, he was just upset that it wasn't presented as such!
I didn't know who Tom Preston-Werner was before this post, but apparently he has indeed bootstrapped several successful startups and is a great open source contributor. Good for him, and I thank him for his contributions. One of the reasons I want to become financially secure is so that I can devote most of my time to OSS, so everyone who contributes largely to said software gets my utmost respect and admiration. I don't see how any of that has any bearing on the status of god's documentation, however.
- grandalf 18y agoThe following is not a personal attack? "call a turd a turd" The guy sounds like an 8 year old. It's just incredibly unbecoming. Anyway, if you like his blog, good for you.
- tdavis 18y agoThe "turd" here was god, not the author thereof. You seem to be confusing the two. Or anthropomorphizing god. Or something. I like Brad as a person, but I don't think I've read his blog before. And he usually acts on par with an 11 year old, so take that into account.
- grandalf 18y agoIt's tough to separate the creator from the product of the creative act. Why would Tom have created God if not because he was inspired to write something cool and useful. To then sit around calling it names is an insult not just to Tom but to anyone who is engaged in productive, creative work. Also, this kind of thing will only discourage others from releasing their code to the community...