Respect has to be earned, not demanded

Linux developers and distro maintainers dwell in ivory towers, from which they bestow their divine wisdoms on us, mere mortals. One of the wisdoms is that we have to pay respect to them. Fuck no.

I counter that with another wisdom: respect has to be earned.

When all you do is break compatibilities, butcher specifications and APIs, retire widely-used commands, configuration options, command-line parameters, files, and other items of IT infrastructure, i.e. when you make unnecessary, unwanted breaking changes, you lose respect. If and when you still continue to demand it, you have unrealistic expectations.

We are equal human beings, regardless of whether you recognize us as such or not. When we inform you of that, by way of bug reports, you have to live with that.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 11:03 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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