On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 02:11:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/conduct-unbecoming-of-a-hacker/
(His particular suggestion about accept patches by default is
not why I post this).
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We’re all talk
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Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example of a guy who
gets stuff done, whose Hurd microkernel never actually got done,
:) though certainly ambitious, so Stallman would never have had a
FOSS OS on which to run his GNU tools if it weren't for Linus.
As for the main point about useless bickering replacing hacking,
that's probably because it was a much smaller community back
then, so it consisted of only the really hard-core who wanted to
_do_ something, whereas now it's expanded outside that group to
the more half-hearted. Either that or he has on the usual
rose-colored glasses for the past, the usual veteran complaint,
"Everything was better when I was young!" :D
I don't think the D community actually has these problems that
much, as most of the talk is about technical issues, not whether
Apple is doing this or that with their business. The fact is
that software was not as big a business back then, whereas the
largest companies on the planet are built to write software
nowadays, so of course people talk a lot more about how the giant
software company du jour's actions affect them.