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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by xyzzy_plugh on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:14PM (#29531375)
This sort of thing should be required reading by everyone who interacts with open source software.

So many folks come in with a chip on their shoulder, missing the forest for the trees. If every developer modeled themselves after Tatham's attitude, we probably wouldn't be having most of these conversations around open source right now. And issue trackers might be a more peaceful place.

edit: fixed the author!

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by camtarn on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:33PM (#29531557)
Tatham, rather than Ducker - the former wrote a comment on the latter's link blog.
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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by AndrewDucker on Sunday December 12, 2021 @01:05PM (#29531907)
Indeed, Simon drops by occasionally and leaves a comment if he fancies. This one was so good I thought it was worth sharing more widely.
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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by camtarn on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:44PM (#29532909)
It's pretty darn weird realising that Simon is actually a person who knows somebody I've met IRL, rather than a mysterious benevolent entity responsible for manifesting the PuTTY suite fully-formed upon the internet ;)
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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by aardvark179 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @06:41PM (#29534882)
Cambridge is an interesting place. You can be in a pub with pretty much the entire PuTTY team, at least two Debian project leads, a major bind contributor, and a couple of OpenJDK contributors.

The conversations can get a little geeky. :-)

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by AndrewDucker on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:54PM (#29532998)
I think I bumped into Simon through a bunch of other Cambridge people I chanced onto via Dreamwidth/Livejournal. I wouldn't say we were even slightly close, but if I was living closer to Cambridge and there wasn't a pandemic he's definitely amongst the people I'd be delighted to say hi to in person.
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