Re: [PATCH 0/4] remote-hg: more improvements

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 14, 2014, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <5373e2af9ae58_592416ad2f892@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87mwekrsap.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> > Do you feel Felipe is in control of what you label bad behavior?  Do you
> >> > feel you are in control over how you react to his behavior?
> >> 
> >> I feel that Felipe cannot control this (or decided not to),
> >
> > I am pretty much in control of my behavior. Those who know me
> > personally know that I *never* get angry.
> 
> You are missing the point.  The point is not what effect your behavior
> has on you but what it has on others.

If me saying "I do not believe in God" has a negative effect on Mark, your answer seems to be "do not tell Mark the truth". If Mark was a co-worker and I had no option but to interact with him, I would probably do something along those lines if possible. But if Mark was a member of an open source project, I do have an option and I'd rather tell it like it is. If Mark has a problem with that, I can always avoid Mark, or just leave the project (say if Mark was the maintainer).

In both cases Mark is wrong. I do understand that most people would rather comprimise their beliefs in order to win penguing points. I'm not that way.

If I can't speak my mind in an open source project where I'm contributing my time *for free*, I do not want to be part of that project. It's the project that's wrong, not me, and it's the project that looses, not me.

-- 
Felipe Contreras