if someone is still reading the thread... 1. marcus makes mistake 2. michael tells the world 3. theo plays theater
1. it's not rocket science not to commit gpl licensed code into the public cvs tree under a bsd license and let it sit there for months. esp. with the openbsd kind of draconian license audits. it's not rocket science, and thus it's hard for linux people to believe it was not intentional, but again, its obviousness is the proof it couldn't have been intentional. pray, who wouldn't have noticed the gpl code in there? 2. let's stop for a moment, and think why michael would make a mistake like this, again, it's not rocket science, it was a mistake. let's play the associations game. i say "openbsd developer" you say the first three things that come into your mind. ready? go. mine were: "theo", "arrogant", and "difficult". now let me state publicly after my fair share of flame wars on misc@ that i do not believe on any day, that all openbsd devs are like this. not even the majority. maybe no one is like that these days... but the thing is, that these are some of the attributes openbsd got associated with in the past, a stigma. so i wouldn't be surprised if michael just skipped the first step of the rules of engagement and called in the heavy artillery right away. it's not that far fetched, do you work in big company? the first thing you learn is to cc: all the managers if you want to get something done for real. so he did. at this point there could have been a nice and easy solution if markus just explained publicly what he did. 3. theo's repeated (to the point of "shut up, already!", which he uses so frequently) cries for empathy, downplaying marcus's mistake and at the same time enlarging michael's is the most postmodern literature i have read this year. it's absurd. imagine theo with tears in his eyes calling for empathy because one of his developers has made a mistake and he's still managing to insult people in the process! just brilliant. reading the whole thread i find it easy to see that theo made it all worse. marcus has made a mistake, but obviously, he's not a thief. the linux people have decided to deal with it this way, not very nice but hey, life is not all cakes. stand up like a man, make a public answer, explain yourself and not hide behind theo to deal with the PR. and you almost did just that. and then you deleted the driver because ... because... what was it again? there is no public explanatory mail between your list of choices and then erasure. why was it really? because some people hurt your feelings? well, as theo used to say, v-v-very frequently: boo hoo, the world is a harsh place. the poetic "justice" of it all. -f -- to learn more about paranoids, follow them around!
