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points by bita_nidir 4 days ago | 0 comments
Wow. It works for him and it works for me. I'm forever grateful for what he's done and I feel this bashing is totally undeserved. Kitty and Calibre are two of my favorite software thingies ever.
[–] ranger_danger 2 days ago
I don't think it's undeserved at all. If you followed Kovid's interactions with users over the years you would quickly see he has a cosmically inflated ego and a god complex, and can only speak in absolutes while simultaneously mocking you for daring to even ask a question. He publicly berates and abuses people even much more than Torvalds does.

And I specifically avoid all software from both of those people precisely because of their attitudes towards others.

I'm not asking anyone else to do the same, I know it's a wildly unpopular opinion and people will attack me for it.

But boycotts in general wouldn't exist if everyone could separate the art from the artist.

[–] bita_nidir 2 hours ago
Ah, the post I responded to wasn't talking about Kovid's interactions with users.

I agree that he could do a lot better with controlling his emotions. Me and him are on the opposite ends of the tmux debate for example. But I understand his point, he's trying to solve the same problems that tmux solves, with a very different way.

The problem is that Kitty isn't there yet (I wish it was) and his outburst on the topic are quite damaging to his goals.

When you've met and worked with people in real live that are like that, you can just visualize them and have a laugh at their outbursts.

I'm still team Calibre and Kitty any day and tremendously thankful for what he's doing.