Autumn and Halloween: Cold, Scary World (But There is Hope)
THE world is becoming cruel to a lot of people. Wars, conflicts, invasions and famine... to name just a few of the worst ones. To a lot of people there is financial anxiety, social rejection, health problems and so on.
Interesting comments from the FreeBSD forums were shared internally today. For those who don't know, historically FreeBSD attracted a fair deal of Microsoft boosters and apologists, who used the project to adopt "UNIX" while attacking GNU/Linux. Not many such people, but enough to be noticed...
These comments concern the founder of GNU, which either competes with or mutually complements the BSDs (a lot of code and/or packages have been shared). There is "only one troll there," the associate notes in the internal powwow. Sometimes it happens. Someone seems not to actually understand Richard Stallman's position/stance and, let's face it, slanderous media operatives contribute to that. They never bothered to correct false articles. We can relate to many of the comments in the forums because the same people who attacked Dr. Stallman (and more recently Prof. Moglen) did the same to my wife and myself. We can neither forget nor forgive them for what they did, as it went on for years; they had even relied on sockpuppet accounts. There are still cases with British police against some of them, but the perpetrators seem to think the whole thing is a joke or "just for lols"...
They always attack people, then pretend to be the victims (e.g. in case they get called out on their attacks).
A person who has tact and has empathy would never behave in this way, but these people are obviously defective, mentally. They cannot think like normal people and inevitably they can become somebody's "troll fodder". The corporations let such people inherit positions of power because they're easier to tame and commandeer. They say nonsense and do nothing, just like the caveman who is the world's worst plumber.
Either way, have a look at the forums. █