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I see many people calling him out not for making a mistake, but for downplaying its significance when confronted with its full ramifications. I agree that mist
by jjnoakes 12y ago
I see many people calling him out not for making a mistake, but for downplaying its significance when confronted with its full ramifications.
I agree that mistakes happen. But someone who deserves respect, in my opinion, owns up to mistakes and tries to get them fixed.
Someone who downplays the mistakes in order to save face deserves nothing from me.
- Donzo 12y agoI don't think he wants anything from you. Perhaps you're putting too high a premium on your gratitude.
- jjnoakes 12y agoI sincerely hope that anyone that acts as he does is not looking for anything from me. > Perhaps you're putting too high a premium on your gratitude. I think it's quite the opposite - people demand that he be respected solely because of what he's contributed to the free software movement, including even the lowliest gratitude from the smallest voices (of which I'm at the bottom of the list). But what really should happen is that each individual action and contribution should stand on its own, unmarred by its relationship (through its author) to any other action or contribution. People (the high and the low of us) should respect the free software movement and some of the software it has provided to the world, and simultaneously deride the position that this serious security problem should be shrugged off or downplayed, despite the fact that the same person or people are responsible for both.