The community-at-large wants to see more "working together" and "building things" and less "turf battles" and "yo moma is a ho".
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Open source is not just about source code being shared. It is a gift culture of sharing[2].
[2] The Bibles about open source from Eric Raymond (the man who invented the term open source), specifically
the Magic Cauldron.
This.
Eric Raymond is an amazing man. Worked on a trial with him a while back. Good times.
Maybe its just me, but I see all these "turf battles" as less of a gang war, and more of good natured prodding? I suspect that there are places where this culture clash boils over, I may just be missing it.
Seems like a couple of New York friends saying "Fawk yoo, no, Fawk YOO" over who has the best code, and then going out to grab a drink together and having the same argument over who gets to pick up the tab. We are all in this together, like it or love it.
The BBR vs XMR rivalry to me doesn't bug me a lot. It seems an artificial competition, and mostly out on the fringes where the trolls live. In the central groups, just about all I hear is mutual respect, though I'm mostly just privy to the XMR sentiment, I'd guess its the same with BBR. I'd bet that when you took this message to Risto, he probably just smiled and nodded. The rivalry has its uses, to keep folks on their best game.
Back to this thread... The same is true with the BCX game. BCX played the 'villain' card, and did it with some panache. The pressure worked. Not everyone saw the threat, but everyone came together to get out a fix. We were red teamed. Folks placed bets on how it would come out. We were energized. Good times.