Hostility in plain sight

Posted Dec 20, 2012 8:53 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Hostility in plain sight by nix
Parent article: The eudev project launches

One's emotional inclinations, one's desires in software, and one's political inclinations need not correspond.

Let me put this sentence into my personal QotW. The reason is easy to see if we reason about change (or lack of it): one can dislike change in general, may dislike changes in software, and still desire a change in how the world is run. So the degree of conservatism can vary depending on the subject at hand.