[danford]

I think it's just a vocal minority.

It's hard to say that "closed source" even has a community, so of course it's easy to point out assholes in the open source community.

I find (about half the time) submitting an issue on just about any github project run by "professionals" is a good way to be met with hostile behavior. It makes me wonder if the same things happen behind closed doors at places like google, Apple, MS, etc. I read a report a few months back about how the general atmosphere at google was one of pretentious content for fellow employees.

Maybe the tech community needs to get off its high-horse as a whole, including Lennart, who isn't 100% not-guilty of ever being "rude".

What tech related ecosystem has a "friendly" community?

[crusso]

submitting an issue on just about any github project run by "professionals" is a good way to be met with hostile behavior

I would hesitate to equate what the author is describing (raising funds to have him killed, for example) with a little rudeness from a professional developer.

[Jedd]

Pretentious content?

Lennart concedes he's been guilty of being less than admirably professional in that post.

I'm sure we've all spent some time in various free software communities that are always friendly, rarely rude.

[mattkrea]

I had a similar thought. It is quite common at our office to get loud about certain topics that specific devs may feel very passionate about (perhaps they made the decision to implement something and someone is arguing it should be done a different way, etc).

I can't imagine this is very different from what we see in open source.