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Drew DeVault on the biggest threats for FOSS, and proposed solutions (fosstodon.org)

submitted 4 months ago by mke to c/opensource

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[–] refalo 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair warning there is a lot of drama surrounding him. I'll only link one example here but you can google for more if you want:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780551

[–] mke 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks, I'm going through some of it right now, since I do prefer to be aware of this stuff. Far as I can see, though, he just seems like another opinionated person—not really noteworthy for a developer—who happens to write strongly, and write a lot. While this led to a larger virtual profile, most of his opinions that I've seen were shared, at least in part, with stray lobsters/reddit/hackernews comments.

He has ideas I agree with, ones I don't, some that I think make him look silly... so he's just another person on the internet, kinda like you and me. Could, maybe, use a better tone sometimes. As long as his controversial status is limited to the level of tech nerds ranting at each other, there's not much to be warned about. I think we need to be more open towards earnestly discussing certain topics—sometimes it's not drama, it's just a serious conversation you haven't needed to have until now.

Well, those are my two cents. Thanks, regardless.

P.S. huh, subscribers of opensource did not appreciate this post much. Maybe this is what happens when you cross-post "old" news.