RE: rsync and outrage

Speaking as someone who was happy to see that for rsync, unlike many other open-source projects, he did not have to reimplement a trivial, obviously (to me anyway) correct change in some silly-and-different way, or lie about having used AI for the underlying analysis, in order to recently submit a patch: please, keep on as you are doing and ignore the jerks.

If I choose to use a bandsaw instead of a jigsaw (or perhaps more rightly for the analogy, a fully manual coping saw) and I cut off my thumb, this was stupid, and I exercised inadequate care.  If I ask, or allow, a student to use a bandsaw, without adequate training and advice, and they injure themselves, I think it is fair to say I bear some of the responsibility for that.  However, neither of these is an argument for refusing to use or even look at furniture I suspect or know may have been made using dangerous tools.

Thor

-----Original Message-----
From: rsync <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andrew Tridgell via rsync
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 11:13 PM
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Subject: rsync and outrage

there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development.
I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

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