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[Vittorio Giovara]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/27/2024 9:58 PM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 11:46 AM Michael Niedermayer <
> michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Anton
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 06:24:40AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >>> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-12-23 21:37:32)
> >>>> If i stand by and do nothing, THAT would be abusing of my power
> >>>
> >>> Behold, the favorite excuse of every tin-pot dictator ever.
> >>>
> >>> So boiling down your verbal vomit, I get
> >>>
> >>>      Yes, your democracy IS just pretend and I - the person who
> >>>
> >>>      * tries very very hard to avoid as much human contact as possible
> >>>      * oversaw one of the most toxic FOSS communities for close
> >>>        to 25 years
> >>>      * through heavy-handed authoritarianism directly caused one of the
> >>>        most notorious forks in FOSS history
> >>>
> >>>      really do know better than everyone else how to run a community.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> To that I say:
> >>> * you are delusional, as you are the source or enabler of all the
> >>>    toxicity
> >>> * Libav had NONE of these problems (not saying it was perfect - it did
> >>>    have other problems, but not these)
> >>> * there is no hope for this project as long as you continue to hold the
> >>>    reins and I've wasted enough of my life on it.
> >>
> >> If the democracy is just pretend, then above all, you certainly will
> >> agree that my SDR code would have been pushed to git master.
> >> It was not.
> >>
> >
> > OH MY GOD, you are not bringing this up again! Ever heard of the
> expression
> > "the exception that proves the rule"? Think how much community outlash it
> > received and how much effort it took from EVERYONE to prevent you from
> > doing something NOBODY wanted.
> >
> > You should really drop the "it's totally a democracy, except I can do
> what
> > I like" stance you have. Repeat after me
> >
> >
> 👏it's👏not👏a👏democracy👏if👏I👏can👏be👏judge👏jury👏and👏executioner👏
> >
> > You are not him, and never will be.
>
> Vittorio, this is not ok at all. I don't even know who "him" is, but the
> second half of this email is out of the line.
>

It's a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bro-thinks-hes-him-im-him

It's really sad that a CC representative is taking sides and victim
shaming, when the very people of this community are leaving (forcibly or
not) because of this thread.
-- 
Vittorio