There's nothing professional about posting unsubstantiated assumptions and misinformation about someone's work to dismiss it as not useful, in order to promote the direction they support. They presented an 'expert' opinion on it without having a clue what they were talking about.
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The only reason I became involved in that thread was to defend my work from someone presenting it as useless because they work on something in the same area they want to promote. They knew they didn't know what they were talking about and still misled people about it anyway.
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Why are they attacking my work on a mailing list without even bothering to read what it's about? The rest of the discussion doesn't particularly interest me. Someone linked me to it and I saw someone repeatedly spreading misinformation about my work to downplay / dismiss it.
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It's not fair having someone present it in such a misleading way and act as if they're on an expert on the topic when they're not and didn't even do basic research to form an opinion. It's not legitimate criticism and misleads people not in a position to evaluate it themselves.
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They could have read through what it is and said they don't think they should switch because the project isn't mature / tested enough, or the performance compromises are too high, or some other legitimate criticism instead of misrepresenting what it is and what it does.
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It will *always* feel unfair when someone criticizes your baby, especially when they ‘just don’t get it’. But if your idea is really great, no one will ‘get it’ right away and it will take a lot of patient explaining for others to want to invest the time to really understand it
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I'm sure they would have gotten it if they actually read what was written about it but they didn't try to figure out what it was. They made convenient assumptions and jumped to conclusions to push their existing view on the direction to take. I don't really care what they choose.
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The part that I care about is having someone present a completely uninformed take on it as if it's an expert assessment when it isn't. They could have actually read about it but instead they skipped that and jumped right to dismissing it and making it seem completely useless.
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If you can’t get used to others not reading your documentation and immediately seeing the brilliance of your design then I’m afraid you won’t last long in computers.
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Why are people commenting without reading the docs? Why is that something Daniel or anyone else should "get used to" ?
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Not just commenting but laying out this bogus summary and comparison speaking as an expert on the topic, without actually looking into what it's actually about. Now everyone thinks it's awful that I called that dishonest. Pretty much exactly my issue with the security community.
So for example, at the 2018 Linux Security Summit, someone presented a completely inaccurate account of what happened with my project and turned it into a joke. Everyone got a laugh out of the suffering that I went through. They went out of the way to refuse to talk to me before.
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Open source is already beyond thankless, putting out code paints a target on your back. The security community interacts especially poorly with that.