Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 9, 2019 12:59 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: Richard Stallman and the GNU project by nix
Parent article: Richard Stallman and the GNU project

> So... if people actually tell you that it happened to them, you won't believe them? It seems to me that no evidence would be acceptable.

I made an actual example of a conversation that happened to me tens of times. People telling me "I would have liked to learn an instrument". False, they would have liked to be a master of an instrument but not to go through the pain of learning.

Every time that the twitter mobs are targeting someone, for 1 person that is honest about the "I would have contributed but" There are a thousand liars who would like to be contributors but actually don't want to spend the time and effort to become one.

I have a number of small libre software projects and contributions are very very rare, and good contributions happen even more seldom.

Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 13, 2019 18:19 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

So... anyone who says they had this problem is a liar, and not wanting or being able to cope with people being abusive to you when contributing to a free software project is *just like* not wanting to learn to program at all?

I think that might be among the worst examples of flawed reasoning I've ever seen.

Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 14, 2019 5:57 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (2 responses)

Did you ever read my comment?

I didn't say everyone. I said a staggering majority.

Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 14, 2019 9:27 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

That seems like accusation in the absence of evidence. Oh wait isn't that what you're accusing all of *them* of doing? Yes, yes it is, except you have even less evidence.

Richard Stallman and the GNU project

Posted Oct 14, 2019 11:39 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Go take a look at the famous opal issue.

Huge amount of trolls who "would contribute if you kick out that guy".