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> I woke up this morning with my inbox lit up by netizens outraged at me for having allowed the WireGuard Project to produce such terribly subpar and dysfunctional software for the Mac. That was a weird way to wake up on Christmas, considering how much I really do care about delivering polished software.

The response is much nicer than deserved. I would not have blamed him for a less friendly reaction.




In that situation I’d take the emails in a “welcome to my hell” frame of mind instead of a “why are they pissed at me”.

It’s also true of much enterprise software - it’s often as good as the developers could make it given the constraints they were working with.


I'm laughing right now trying to imagine how Linus would have replied to this.




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