• calamityjanitor@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I always assumed that Poettering is an arse to people because of the hate he got for systemd. I imagine it’s hard to see the best in people when there’s a crowd of haters everywhere you go. Though I have no idea what he was like beforehand.

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 hours ago

        Everybody who is hated and popular gets death threats. Hell, even the nicest actors get death threats.

        They are easy to write and send, and there’s 0.01% of the population that is mentally unstable enough to actually do so. You and I don’t get death threats because we aren’t popular enough.

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      12 hours ago

      I feel that generally, when the issue is that the person is an arse, then the complaints are often not about the software. You might see people campaigning to boicot the software out of spite, but they won’t give you a technical reason, other than them not wanting the creator to get any credit for it.

      When the complaints are about discrepancies in the way the software is designed (like it was with systemd), there’s no reason to expect the person to be an arse. Though him not being an arse does not make the criticism about his software invalid… in the same way as him being an arse would not have made the software technically worthless. Don’t fall for the ad-hominem.