@ Ttuxxx....while my back was turned and I was out promoting puppy/open source to a local charity, do you think that I would not be told about your actions while I was away?
@ All - An explanation of what just happened....and why.
Ttuxxx's post as it is now (Mon 20th April, 23:00 GMT)...
As I see it Guys, WhoDo/Warren is our leader [blah bah blah] So lets bond together and clean this c**p up right now Smile
ttuuxxx
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Last edited by ttuuxxx on Today, at 1:38 pm; edited 1 time in total
Note the last line, the post has been "edited", in fact its origional content has been entirely removed, (and replaced with obsequious platitudes) So what was was posted there originally, before it was "edited"?
The story goes back to when the
Abiword wordprocessor bug was first reported.. As Ttuxxx had compiled the abiword package and put it in the final release, I pointed out that hes should in future test new packages it to see if it actually worked as well a just compiled. Ttuxxx took this very badly, and started making excuses it was "not his responsibility to test his work", , the problem was down to the Abiword project team that introduce the bug at source, his origional precious time" was too valuable to spend testing the packages he compiled, and it was my responsibility to test it (I was not asked to be part of any testing team, despite having my name included on the release notes). He also publicly used some very choice four/five letter words (which I wont lower this forum by repeating) to describe me *personally* for daring to make this point to him...
now also now deleted.
In response I sent him a Private Message, where I used a similar "low" level of language to let him know that, growing up around the slums of Scunthorpe as I have, such language is used around me all the time and it does not phase me in the slightest, even when directed personally at me. I asked that for the sake of the community he should edit his post and remove the remove swear words from an non-age restricted forum - as it brings us all down together. I dont have a copy of the PM as it has since expired from my outbox, so you will need to take my word for it that any choice language I used was not directed AT Ttuxxx in the PM (i.e. I didint say "your a xxxxxxing xxxxx", only that he "shouldnt be xxxxing posting xxxx'ing swearwords on the puppy forum). In summary, It was a PRIVATE message to someone who obviously (and publicly) believed it was ok to swear....asking him not to swear PUBLICLY. This is something else I have now learnt not to do again as well
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It seems that Ttuxxx then chose to forward this "well-intentionally-poorly-worded PM" that was briefly posted above to WhoDo, probably with a similar set of "excuses" and a claim that I had been "bullying" him....and it had also I would suspect had been "cherry picked" out of context. With this in his mind, it obviously explains why WhoDo took my original PM asking him to outline when a bugfix would be available as as a personal attack on his position, and also explains his unusually gruff tone with me in the replies I received from him.
I chose to PM WhoDo simply to keep any dissent away from public eyes, since the Abiword thread had already "exploded into obscenity" as this one now seems to have done. It was only when I was refused ANY answer, and I indicated (politely) that I would take my question and concerns back to the wider community at large, that I returned to my computer to find that WhoDo had decided to "get one in first" and had started THIS thread!
This has set what in my opinion is a very dangerous first in the puppy community, one I have never in my four years here never seen before.
Ttuxxx has here above used his obviously superb technical reasoning powers on our *discussion system itself* in an attempt to smear their character while they are offline so he can get his own way. * Is this not a crime against free speech itself?
What Im saying is that Ttuxxxs tactics set a dangerous precident. Not only has his lack of care or sense of responsibility to his work produced the IMHO quite serious bugs in 4.2.0, but he is quite prepared to use technical methods to get his own way and puppy the way HE WANTS IT. What is to say that he would not use these powers, if we let him get away with it, on a .pet, an sfs, or even in an official puppy release? It would be very easy a developer of Ttuxxx's considerable skill to introduce backdoors or other failure mechanisms by which Ttuxxx could take "revenge" on his perceived oppressors.
As Ive already mentioned often, Im no great technical guru when it comes to the inner working of puppy, but what has being around the community centres/homeless/needy has given me some insight into people and psychology...who are often just as complex. Ttuxxxs comments and tactics have set off alarm bells in my head before (anyone remember "pShotdown with the gun to zigberts head...now also deleted? poor Zigbert!) but this one has REALLY brought it home to me clearly.
In my opinion Ttuxxx (and the people around him) suffer from a condition known to medical and legal professionals as
Dissocial personality disorder. It is generally recognised as untreatable, and is often caused by childhood parental abuse, which Ttuxxx has mentioned he suffered from elsewhere on one of the development threads.
wikipedia wrote:
ICD-10 Criteria for Dissocial Personality Disorder
Specifically, the dissocial personality disorder is described by the World Health Organization by the following criteria:
1. Callous unconcern for the feelings of others and lack of the capacity for empathy.
2. Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations.
3. Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.
4. Very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence.
5. Incapacity to experience guilt and to profit from experience, particularly punishment.
6. Marked proneness to blame others or to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior bringing the subject into conflict.
7. Persistent irritability.
.....A sample research finding is that between 50% and 80% of prisoners in England and Wales meet the diagnostic criteria of dissocial personality disorder
Another good source of information on those suffering this disorder is
"The Mask of Sanity" by Hervey Cleckley, M.D. In it he quotes that those found suffering from the disorder most often have higher than average cognitive intelligence.
I admit these are bold statements against our "lead developer", but and I back up with experience. I would just like to remind everyone that Puppy Linux is an OPEN project, -anyone- can come here and contribute. We have no C.V.'s, background checks, criminal records or references from anyone about any of us. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that someone with this destructive condition has come amongst us, and from the clear evidence I will say it has.
Put it another way (in computer terms)....if something was working and now its not, its usually the last thing that was changed that is causing the problem. This is Ttuxxxes first official position with Puppy Linux Development.
@ Whodo, do you remember in part of the PM that you have not quoted, I explained to you my worries about Ttuxxxs character, and that having a person with these traits high up in a team, and the damage that it can cause?
Im going to hold off on the comments you have made, and the valid points many others have contributed, while you and anyone else reading considers what I have put above. Perhaps we are both being given the "run-around" and played off against each other. Like any fault-finding exercise we need to stop and think with clear, calm heads whats actually going on here..
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