Re: OT: Roland Puntaier / "getmail6" drama

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 03:15:57PM -0100, Richard Unger wrote:
> > This is how productive people are exploited all over the world. The work
> > horse has done his duty, now a politburo of pigs decides what is good for
> > the "community". Literally Animal Farm.
> 
> > Stefan Krah
> > 
> 
> Ooh, nice, a literary analogy! But are you sure you got it right? Maybe Charles is the humans, and the others the animals, democratizing the farm’s production? Or maybe Charles is the humans, the others the pigs, and you can’t tell which is which in the end?

Charles would be the work horse in this analogy.


> But I suppose you were really just looking for a way to call me a pig while sounding clever doing it… that’s fine for me. I like animals, including pigs, whose reputation is much worse than their true nature.

I like pigs, too. In this metaphor they stand for a group of people trying to
dictate what a productive individual should do. I did not call you a pig.


> I’m guessing this is you?
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZIAN7ERZNF4ZE2B2SLYNRPVNERNACG5A/ <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ZIAN7ERZNF4ZE2B2SLYNRPVNERNACG5A/>
> Kicked out of the python development team for being rude… real nice! Good to see you’ve learnt your lesson and aren’t continuing the trend here ;-)

I'm glad that my software (which runs every second when you execute python3) is
discoverable on the Internet!  For legal reasons I decline to comment on the
other part.  There will be a summary at some point.


Have fun!

Stefan Krah