Comment by lkey
4 years ago
Casey is in fact perpetually annoyed with and disdainful of microsoft. Anyone who is familiar with him knows this.
He's been like this for years, and that's fine when you are hanging out with you buddies over a beer, but now Casey is a public figure.
Being a public figure means you are not 'every competent developer'. The reason this was made so public wasn't ms employees, it was Casey's followers.
The sequence of events he started here ended with his fans and friends on discord feeling justified (because Casey, not them, was right on a technical level) brigading volunteers and microsoft employees alike until at least one of them quit open source.
A truly ugly conclusion that could have been avoided with a more circumspect approach.
The problem wasn't that the Microsoft devs were wrong technically. The problem was that the tone of the Microsoft developers got much worse than Cassey's tone, they should have just closed the bug rather than ridiculing him at the end. If they did that the issue wouldn't have been a big deal.