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No, that thread is everything that is wrong with open source.


I don't think your comment is clear at all. Do you mean the "community" or (arbitrary) toolsets of open source?


The community. Specifically that someone thought it was appropriate to post an issue shitting on someone's old project in that person's new project's issue tracker.


It's also kind of pathological when someone focuses on just one technical aspect of software, like performance, or security, completely unable to reason within a large context of people doing things for other people.


The original post could have been constructive. It's at least a good possibility that a new thing can be developed based on criticism of an old thing, and some of the author's points were just building on what Dahl said, so it could have been a useful discussion. I don't agree with another comment in this thread that it's easy to (succinctly and with depth) point out what's wrong. The person who initially responded to the issue could have included these possibilities rather than playing full-on cop. These systems are still largely organic. But the original poster's replies are hostile and in light of the "radio silence" request mentioned later in the thread, it wasn't ultimately a good post.


Something similar happened from Linus Torvalds just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242103

Is being a dick pretty common in open source discussion?




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