Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/06/00:08:04
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:15:31PM -0500, "Patrick J. LoPresti" wrote:
> > Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes:
> >
> > > The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people
> > > being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels
> like that,
> > > people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are
> > > constructive. Hopefully this would effect a change for the better.
> >
> > Unlikely. Dozens of people have pointed it out over the years,
> > politely, rudely, coherently, agrammatically...
> >
> > But the Cygwin developers really do not care. They (and let's face
> > it, "they" is mostly cgf) think that working on free software is a
> > license to be a total jerk. No amount of feedback of any kind is
> > going to change this.
>
> Hm. I can only think of one or perhaps two people who've been
> total jerks, at least in the last few months, and neither is cgf.
>
Now that you mention it, he is overdue for a "wjm"-streak.
> cgf is often brusque in his attempts to get the cygwin list
> to function optimally (according to his vision of optimal
> functioning :) but I don't recall any outright rudeness in
> quite some time.
He seems to back off for a while when taken to task for it. But he's like a
Weeble(tm); his passive-aggressive dish-it-out-but-cant-take-it demeanor may
wobble temporarily, but it won't fall down for good.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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