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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Negative
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:05:01 -0600
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> 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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