Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
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Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
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Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#2What an excellent reminder of how easy and effective it can be to not be a jerk. I think there are plenty of people who could take some advice from this.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#3I genuinely agree with his vision and especially the reason why I can go to sleep sanely.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#4How nice it is to see somebody who actually read the license they released their code under and accepts the results:)
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#5Great footnote from the article:
> I'm often amused that people compliment me on things like PuTTY by telling me how much of their time it saved, whereas people compliment me on my puzzle game collection by telling me how much of their time it wasted.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#6Simon is genuinely one of the many folks that are represented by this xkcd [0] aptly. Thank You & and a huge shoutout to you and your software that a lot of us use day-in & day-out.
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#7This sort of thing should be required reading by everyone who interacts with open source software.
So many folks come in with a chip on their shoulder, missing the forest for the trees. If every developer modeled themselves after Tatham's attitude, we probably wouldn't be having most of these conversations around open source right now. And issue trackers might be a more peaceful place.
edit: fixed the author!
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#8Next let's do one for the openssh people
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#9Simon is genuinely one of the many folks that are represented by this xkcd [0] aptly. Thank You & and a huge shoutout to you and your software that a lot of us use day-in & day-out. [0]: https://xkcd.com/2347/
The Putty maintainer is Simon Tatham (the commenter), not Andrew Ducker.
Re: Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
#10Simon is genuinely one of the many folks that are represented by this xkcd [0] aptly. Thank You & and a huge shoutout to you and your software that a lot of us use day-in & day-out. [0]: https://xkcd.com/2347/
The Putty maintainer is Simon Tatham (the commenter), not Andrew Ducker.
:( Apologies and corrected. Thank you!