Hi Ken,
Ken Cunningham wrote:
First of all, I’ve been pretty strongly attacked, as you can see.
as you know from a private mail, I was amazed by the harshness of such
attach.
I have been in opensource for 20 years and more. Yes, it is a thankless
task, there are a lot of rough people, but such level of insults are
rather rare
There was also one brief email exchange with him where expressed his
displeasure with me, and I pointed out he was very new and there was much to
learn.
Which, compared to you, can only be true. I am quite amazed by your
level of knowledge.
All that being said — and not strictly because of that interaction, but in
respect to other general life events, I have re-evaluated how I choose to spend
my time. Life is short, as we all know, and there are only so many hours in the
day. I have resigned from the MacPorts’ committer team, and deleted all my
MacPorts installations on older systems and all my VMs.
I am very sad to hear that and you took a quite strong action. But there
is always a tripping point!
What little I may have contributed over the past 10 years that people may have
found useful, I hope you enjoy. What failings I may have had are life’s
foibles. Like everyone, we all try to do our best.
Your work has been amazing and will be sorely missed. You do know I am
in the camp of those legacy system and generally I am amazed of what
MacPorts can do. Just in recent days I was able to (almost) getting Gimp
on 10.6 usable again. That's wonder. This is also your merit.
Without you, no TenFourFox on Intel and also no ArcticFox on Macs.
It was fun, in ways, keeping all those older systems humming — but I have moved
them all to linux now, and I don’t use them any more anyway.
Somehow, installing LInux on a Mac takes the fun away... it removes
something special :) And it is less fun.
Although, in other ways, Linux is the expression of OpenSource.
I wish you all well in your future adventures!
Best to you too! You have my contact, if you decide to "compute" again.
You will be sorely missed here, in my opinion and for the use I do of
MacPorts!
Riccardo
