After my first attempt of ending the universe failed...

Posted Sep 23, 2018 23:36 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: After my first attempt of ending the universe failed... by nilsmeyer
Parent article: After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)

How could he say that without losing all credibility?

“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi”?

But I agree, it's usually the leaders of a community who set the tone for everybody else. Way back when, the qmail community was really toxic and unfriendly while the Postfix community was pretty congenial, mostly because Wietse Venema is a nice guy while Dan Bernstein is right up there with Linus Torvalds in the abrasive-curmudgeonry department, and everyone else caught it from them.

After my first attempt of ending the universe failed...

Posted Sep 24, 2018 1:23 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

Usually, but not always. Larry Wall has always seemed very pleasant, but c.l.p.m. was a horribly unfriendly place back in the 90s thanks to people like Abigail.