From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T10:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby troll: William James

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

> Devin Mullins wrote:
>
>> Ah. Well, again, thanks, but I don't really care who a person is, on 
>> this list, for the most part. For the most part, I just care what 
>> he's worth to me. And for the purposes of ruby-talk, it affects me 
>> not that he's a clpm troll.
>
> Okay, that's you. Probably there are a few others who look at it the 
> same way.
>
> But I happen to believe that there are also more community minded, 
> less selfish people around at clr, people who are devoted to the open 
> source language they love to develop and use, and who get upset at a 
> regular clr participant who is deliberately hurting the image of Ruby.
>
> Call me naive, if you like. I can live with that.

Probably not naive. Just grew up in a different world, next to different 
people. (My guess, any way.)

It's not selfish, entirely. My first email was probably a little 
inflamatory at the expense of accuracy. My bad. Props for not taking the 
bait.

I am interested in how a distinct subset of people perceive Ruby. I 
don't care what soccer moms think of Ruby. I don't directly care what 
Microsoft thinks about Ruby. I directly care what Google thinks about 
Ruby, because I value Google and the people that work there. (Having 
Microsoft on Ruby's side might help adoption, so that's where the 
indirect care comes from.) I think that the Google-like people, whom I 
hope would a)benefit from Ruby, b)benefit Ruby, are going to stick 
around and check out The Real Ruby, despite a sour apple or two.

Devin