A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 26, 2006 0:29 UTC (Sun) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010) [Link]

> I dont see where we get to throw the first stone so to speak.

The city manager threw the first stone by threatening legal action and making baseless accusations. No matter how many times or how many way the CentOS dev tried to explain it he only got more and more threatening. He also made the terminal error of claiming technical compentency while making those threats. The CentOS people displayed far more patience than I would have. As the earlier poster pointed out, a commercial operation wouldn't put up with it either.

I would have explained it once then warned him about legal action myself. Bad publicity is the least of what this clown deserves. If I were a taxpayer in that town, I'd be seriously worried about the quality of help my tax dollars were buying.

Posted Mar 27, 2006 0:45 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

In his resume the guy claims to have been a Program Manager for 22 years at Raytheon. Can you imagine what levels of psychological torture his staff (for whatever programs he managed) must have endured? Oh well, this is just a small vengeance for all those tortured geeks.

Posted Mar 28, 2006 17:09 UTC (Tue) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

The level of arrogance I am refering to is the people who decide to make a lark about someone with 22 years IT etc

22 years proves not much, isn't it ? You'd thought that by that time one could identify such a problem quite easily, or at least have enough clue to know where to look for apart from calling the FBI.

Being a monk for 50 years does not necessarily make one a saint.