OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 02:11:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
> http://sealedabstract.com/rants/conduct-unbecoming-of-a-hacker/
> (His particular suggestion about accept patches by default is 
> not why I post this).
> '
> We’re all talk
>
> [...]

Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example of a guy who 
gets stuff done, whose Hurd microkernel never actually got done, 
:) though certainly ambitious, so Stallman would never have had a 
FOSS OS on which to run his GNU tools if it weren't for Linus.

As for the main point about useless bickering replacing hacking, 
that's probably because it was a much smaller community back 
then, so it consisted of only the really hard-core who wanted to 
_do_ something, whereas now it's expanded outside that group to 
the more half-hearted.  Either that or he has on the usual 
rose-colored glasses for the past, the usual veteran complaint, 
"Everything was better when I was young!" :D

I don't think the D community actually has these problems that 
much, as most of the talk is about technical issues, not whether 
Apple is doing this or that with their business.  The fact is 
that software was not as big a business back then, whereas the 
largest companies on the planet are built to write software 
nowadays, so of course people talk a lot more about how the giant 
software company du jour's actions affect them.