[BeetleB]

The submitter was pretty civil for the most part, and Kovid ended with:

> Something answering posts from fools like you over the years should have taught me a long time ago.

And submitter is correct - he does this often. I recall a security bug that he refused to fix as fixing it would break some convenient feature. That one got really heated, and only when distributions declared they will stop carrying calibre in their package management system did he cave in and fix it.

Nevertheless, I don't see these as obvious reasons not to support him in Patreon.

[unsined]

I stumbled into that git issue and couldn't stop reading. He was immediately dismissive of the security suggestion, even when that person had gone out of their way to provide verifiable examples of the vulnerability. I ended up not installing the software.

[the_af]

You mean you didn't install Calibre because of a bug report where the author allegedly misbehaved? That's odd. A lot of open source software is riddled with ego and personality clashes, and because they play out in public forums, mailing lists and bug trackers for everyone to see, these flamewars tend to be very visible (also see: Linus Torvalds' outbursts). Do you also not use these programs?

Did you need Calibre in the first place? If so, what did you end up using instead?

[kranner]

I agree, these are not reasons not to support him.