The Title made me think of Vladimir Lenin and gave me insight into his mindset when he made the "useful idiots" remark.
I read every word of the article with great interest. Both in what he had to say about The Community, while addressing the community in that manner, from what he sees as an Enlightened position as a member of that community.
There’s no limit, or rules, or order to any of this. The community does whatever it wants.
All that pie in the sky made Crazy White Boy hungry for some coconut pie.
First of all, I'm not a member of his community, nor would I be considered "one of them".
For an open-source project, when it comes to creating the best possible software vs babysitting the less able of the community, this is often quite tricky and often mutually exclusive unfortunately.
He sees "The Community" as being open source minded in ideology and working toward that goal. While critically lacking in self-awareness as a writer.
I do agree that there *should* be more to cater for the latter but I don't think software projects are really the best place for it.
Here we go.
kpetersen, who has my utmost respect, sees it. There is a Tribal Hierarchy in the Community.
\Software engineers aren't always renowned for their empathy (we do work with machines after all!
I'm not a Software Engineer, have never taken a computer course, never worked in IT and didn't even finish High School.
Who would have guessed? Nobody did.
Not till I said something a few years ago, just when things were going good, for reasons you could not begin to understand. That is my way..
I'm a QMRP, an EMT,a Behaviorist and trained observer. Addressing inappropriate behaviors my specialized area of expertise. I'm an Authority Figure in my own right, second to none..
Software Engineers are, in compassion, a beautiful field of daisy's flourishing under the empathic rays of the Summer Sun. But the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon.
I see things from a much different perspective, but it took me this long to see it clearly.
Did you ever hear definitively why the forums were down over the weekend? No you did not. Know why?