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In your uneducated estimation with zero experience with him personally (and likely very little if any with others on the spectrum), yes, he shows many signs: no doubt, someone looking at your foolish self-righteous behavior could conclude many interesting things, too. What you did was an uneducated attack on the person that is your focus, rather than the work of that person, and you come to conclusions with zero backing other than your uneducated and ignorant guess: if you had any clue whatsoever, you would at least have taken some care to spell the word correctly, for a start, as someone who was qualified would have no problem doing that.

Ok, so the guy likes things simple, and he has a certain aesthetic in regards to what he thinks is best: so what? So he argues about that design aesthetic with gusto: so what? So he gets a bit extreme in his viewpoints: wait, are you saying you don't get at all extreme about your viewpoints, or is it you think you're above that and balanced? Let's face it: most people aren't perfectly objective about themselves, and I don't claim to be an exception to that: people tend to be blind to their own faults, and often to their own strengths, and we all need to give others the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their motivation and trying to understand their personality, or at least the minimal facets of their personalities that we see reflected by their works and what makes it to print, video, or whatever medium, as all media is a statistically insignificant representation of the nature of a person, or else we would rightly conclude many curious things about actors and actresses.

Judge the works of a person for the works of the person: don't judge the person by your limited field of vision without the light of true knowledge about them from afar. I see you posted no links to justify your judgment of him: you have no data of value. Maybe he's unpleasant in all facets of life, or perhaps he rubs people's fur the wrong way for a certain number of online public facets: the facts are not in evidence either way. What is in clear evidence is you making a sweeping judgment about him, showing a lack of real experience and knowledge in the field in which you judge him, and, for all you know, he may take the statements you make as libel, and haul you to court, in which case, I'd laugh. Either that, or he might decide to go on a personal vendetta and hunt you down online and spread crap about you and your nature.

I won't comment on most of this rant, apparently I've hit a sensitive spot. However, "zero experience" is just not true, or you'd have to define "personally" as "in real life". The latter I cannot claim, but as a regular of the OSDev forums, I can assure you I have had more than enough experience with the guy to ascertain that this is not someone you want to deal with.

You are seeking to simply draw this out as painfully as possible rather than show any balance. I will be locking this thread after this comment as I do not feel that you are capable of reaching a point where you we can discuss the topic instead of debating petty arguments.

Terry was banned from OSnews some time ago due to his conduct. I cooperated with him to publish this article because I’m a nice person and where as nobody was willing to have anything to do with him—like yourself—I believe in giving people a chance under the right circumstances. This article was published because I wanted to. Don’t like that? Go elsewhere.

It’s “quoted” because that is the original (and unique to this article) text Terry wrote for me to be the article itself; I however thought that this would not be adequate enough and instead decided to wrap his text around my own contribution to bolster the article, improve the quality, and bring out the importance of recreational programming, rather than an OS having to strictly have a point. Again, the quoted sections are exclusive content to OSnews, it is simply “quoted” in order to distinguish between my opinions and his.



I put LoseThos in the correct perspective. It’s not trying to be another Linux and it is pretty advanced despite the looks.

You don’t like Terry, you are opposed to him getting attention, and you don’t like me either and have to nitpick everything I’ve said. This is not a discussion, it’s you being an immovable asshat.