Mr. Bad fan club
tilly wrote:
All that I know about it is that it was founded by Tom Lord, and I have seen far too much of his utopian fantasies on the free software business list. Judging from his behaviour there I conclude that as long as he is involved it will likely be long on goals, short on actual work, and I won't want to trust the responsiveness of the core developer(s).
This may be unfair, I acknowledge that, but it happens to be how I feel.
As mentioned earlier, I feel similarly about Tom Lord (although software projects need to stand and fall by their own merit, doubly so projects their creators have orphaned). But, relevant to that, here's a [link|http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-January/023238.html|post] on the arch-users@lists.fifthvision.net mailing list by Evan ("Mr. Bad") Prodromou. I figure you'll get a kick out of it:
Subject: svn
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:38:05 -0800
>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:
TL> Walter made false statements and used them to attack my
TL> professionalism. That's a big deal, in my book.
So, Tom: you're talking to the list of people who picked up the slack
when you cancelled your work on arch, closed all your mailing lists
and Web sites, and announced fairly vociferously that unless company
A, B, or C paid you -- what, N million dollars? -- you weren't going
to touch arch again.
I have probably about 100 emails in my (other) arch-users folder that
are increasingly shrill and, hey, let's be honest, completely
freaked-out nutso, written from you to the heads of companies A, B,
and C, which you thoughtfully cc'd to the arch-users list. I don't
think anyone who's read that stuff has any question about your
professionalism; you sound like the kind of employee I would show
directly to the door, and tell security to keep out of the building.
I don't know you personally, but I think you've done some interesting
work, and I think arch is a great piece of software. But good hacking
and good leadership are two different things. And right now, your
leadership grades are in the toilet.
And, y'know, you can't yell people into respecting you. The very fact
that your personality and programming style are a subject of debate on
this list is a good sign that you're not showing leadership. Maybe you
need to start walking the leadership walk instead of bitching at
Walter.
~Mr. Bad
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