Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 7, 2015 13:13 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by dakas
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

I don't think you'll still have Lennart ...

From what I know he's a nice person. He's had to *become* thick-skinned because of all the jerks around him, but he'd much rather ditch that and be a generally nice guy.

The problem is he doesn't suffer fools gladly - if his program breaks because your program doesn't honour the contract that *IT* offered him, well of course he's going to be upset about it!

Oh - and can I give another example of a community that seems to manage to be very civil and works well - LibreOffice. No small thanks to Michael Meeks for that. He gets the best out of people, not the worst - oh and I think he's a brit by the way :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 18, 2015 12:32 UTC (Sun) by ksandstr (guest, #60862) [Link]

>From what I know he's a nice person.

That's because he's had all of his unflattering oral history purged from the Internet. For an example of how this fails, see his comments on the "kdbuswreck" article on LWN. Available on Google to those willing to search, of course.