My point is that there seems to be a culture of forthrightness among FOSS developers and less concern for the social niceties. Of course, there are people who have a greater set of social skills than others. Those also tend to be the older developers, such as you and Randal and Larry. People who have had a reason to actually learn those social skills because they don't have the luxury of only interacting with the FOSS community.

Basically, I've noticed that people with a propensity for those skills that FOSS developers tend to have don't have a corresponding tendency for social skills. Both can be learned, but I don't think the intersection between the groups who natively learn one or the other is a large one. IME, of course.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: Please remember that geeks have their own social mores. by dragonchild
in thread Please remember that geeks have their own social mores. by dragonchild

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