“I will slaughter you”

I initially thought the emailer was complaining about the curl_multi functionality, and I empathised a bit, but I was not expecting the rest.

>walked around my house for a few minutes to cool off

>it hurt me deep in my soul

>you don’t deserve my code

Grow a pair. This would be pathetic enough for a grown man to think or say in private, let alone sook about on a public blog for the world to see.

And it all seems like a thinly veiled excuse to boast about how popular his code is. I'm sorry that there aren't public parades to celebrate your unparalleled genius, your majesty.

The general demeanor of that person, some of the lingo used like "rooting" or "federal server hijacking", the fact that in the screenshot he's using some text editor with ads in it to browse the offending code combined with the fact that he doesn't know what Curl is (if he did he wouldn't have sent this e-mail) screams "script kiddie" to me.

I'm not sure whether this person is actually responsible for a multi-million dollar defense project, but if he really was, it's probably a good thing he lost the deal because I definitely don't want that kind of person managing such a project.

Some context: Daniel is the primary maintainer of curl (the ubiquitous utility and library for HTTP requests) [1]

His name often shows up in the licensing disclosures/attributions of applications that include curl.

The general opaqueness of modern software leads people to latch onto him and his email for all manner of things, and for non developers to attribute to him all sorts of bad motives ("You hacked me!").

This is especially unfortunate as Daniel has been such a genuinely positive and helpful face to a popular open source project. I feel awful that his generosity gets repaid with this kind of crap.

1 - https://github.com/sponsors/bagder

imagine being so bad at computers that you decide to blame curl for inventing hackers