Comment by Mizza
10 months ago
Marcan is a legend, it's a shame it ended like this. The communities around certain software technologies can act incredibly hostile and entitled towards developers, paradoxically even more so for free and open source projects. I've seen this many times happen in audio production and game emulation software.
But Marcan clearly has true hacker spirit, I'd wager we'll see him again in the future with an equally cool project. It's often best if the visionaries just spend their efforts to get the ball rolling and then let the project evolve on it's own as they move onto their next challenge.
Starting social media shame wars over minor disagreements isn't exactly what I would call hacker spirit, but whatever.
Hard to call what's going on a "minor disagreement" though. And that's the problem - some people just stonewall and the leadership refuses to do anything about it.
Still doesn't justify the reaction, nothing does.
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