Right, all I see is him coming off as an arrogant dickhead. The initial email from the user was nicely written and expressed the point clearly. De Raadt just started insulting the guy out of the blue. Yes, he did make a mistake and a bad point (we all do sometimes, what's the big fucking deal?), but he was very court.
Is it cool these days for open source OS/kernel development efforts to be run by these self-indulgent egotists?
It's not at all courteous for idiots to wonder into email lists and effectively steal a minute or more from every reader of the list. Now multiply this by the number of idiots in the world.
-- someone who has had to triage an email list for an open source project
The real self-indulgent egotist is the person writing the initial email to the mailing list. At the very least he/she could have spent the time to research facts. The majority of Theo's response is debunking things that could have been answered with a minimal amount of effort.
Is it cool these days for open source OS/kernel development efforts to be run by these self-indulgent egotists?