An Open Letter to the Open Source Community

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:18:04PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> It seems to me to all boils down to the fact that the thin-lipped need
> to grow a thicker skin.  Everyone deals every day with goons who don't
> know how to act properly in a host of situations or just with those
> whose ideas and philosophies don't entirely jibe with their own. Most
> times it should slide right off the backs of regular folks.
> This is not to make light of the overall problem, of course, just to
> convey that it could be a lot more serious than it is.

Think of it as a cost-benefit analysis. The cost to not criticising this 
sort of behaviour is that we lose a difficult to quantify number of 
contributors. The benefit is, erm, well. Nothing?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org