[dubfan]

I don't think anyone here is trying to tear Davis down. It's just that his writings can reflect poorly on our community as a whole to those who aren't familiar with his circumstances. In the current climate of hit-piece, shoot-first-ask-questions-never outrage journalism, for which the straw man of the out-of-touch privileged techie is a favorite punching bag, you can't be too careful.

[cloakandswagger]

I'd say we've pretty much gone full circle.

Suffocating levels of political correctness alongside a self-obsessed victim culture have made a lot of people sympathetic to the trope of the outrageous, out of touch savant.

[throwaway3343]

I admit it's hard to balance the approaches behind "He's just a troubled person," "He's a raving nut," "He's a raving nut, but so what?" and so on.

[drivingmenuts]

> I admit it's hard to balance the approaches behind "He's just a troubled person," "He's a raving nut," "He's a raving nut, but so what?" and so on.

Do you mean Davis or Torvalds?

Frankly, I'd avoid both of them.

[gonzo]

Or Theo DeRaat

[rdc12]

At the same time his approach to others, would make him an extremly difficult person to work with. I enjoy looking at some of his work, but I could never actually work with him, which is quite sad.

[throwaway3343]

As someone stridently critical of this community, the way people like you approach Davis reflects more poorly on the community than the presence of an individual with religious mania--especially if you contrast religious mania and greedy mania.

Reputation, reputation, reputation--often that's all this place seems to think about.

Obviously I'm broadly generalizing from what you might have intended to be a considerate comment.

But the masses of homeless in San Francisco are mostly ignored by the tech community, perhaps because it's easier on the mind to squelch with a hellban.