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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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.

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