After takin' a swig o' grog, JEDIDIAH belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> On 2009-05-18, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> In article <OLbQl.42208$i9.9076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why would anyone defend this snivelling, sneering Hadron kook?
>>>
>>> I'm not defending Hadron, Chris. Analogy: if I found that you were
>>> going out nightly having unprotected sex with drug addict prostitutes,
>>> I'd suggest to you that you at least wear a condom. That would not mean
>>> I'm defending drug addict prostitutes.
>>
>> Liarmutt makes no case for himself yet again.
>>
>> He calls people "cunts" and "fuckheads".
No, Hadron. Just you. You're not people.
You're definitely fucked in the head though. Bog crazy.
>> He openly insults and ridicules
>> main OSS contributors like Joerg Schilling.
Nope. Another lie from Hadron.
>
> Schilling it by no means a "main OSS contributor".
>
> You are working him up into something he's not just to suit your
> own self-serving rhetorical purposes.
>
> Schilling earned all of the crap he gets.
>
> This is something else you like to gloss over.
>
> [deletia]]
>
> Schilling is the posterboy for why it is good that you
> can fork an open source project and essentially take it
> away from it's creator.
Look, most programmers, including myself, have elements in common with
Jörg -- hubris, pride, ego, ill social grace, and a certain prickliness
that makes them difficult to deal with when their pet work is involved.
--
There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
-- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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