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> This guy should grow a thicker skin.

I think I have a very thick after dealing with so much shit thrown at me over years.

> They should steal his pixie dust and unicorns too.

You have not read my links carefully. Nobody stole my code. I voluntarily gave the solaris, arm64 port, and now sparc64 port to the Go project. You are welcome to grep the git log for my name, or try running Go on SPARC: https://github.com/4ad/go

Many tens of thousand of lines given away with no expectations other than human decency.

It was a different person's, and a different project stolen by a completely different project. How I am treated by the Go project is completely orthogonal to what happens to other people's stolen code. However, I have provided links so that anyone can independently verify that part of the story, if they are interested in it.

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Whether or not the complaint is legitimate is irrelevant.

If you're going to complain about somebody, you should expect people to complain right back about you. When they do so, writing a post whining about it ends up looking childish -- it's hardly "stalking" or "thought policing". People complain about each other's writing style on the internet all the time. Being butthurt about getting an email isn't so rare and precious that you should write a thinkpiece about it and post it to HN.

> Whether or not the complaint is legitimate is irrelevant.

I do not want to live in a world where truth does not matter. Truth is all that matters.

> If you're going to complain about somebody, you should expect people to complain right back about you.

Oh, I definitely expect people to complain about me. I support their right fully. Here it is not a case of complaint. It is a case where a non-technical group of people think it has the authority over my interaction with a different group of people, and takes an administrative action.

A bunch of people are threatening me and actively take action against my way of being.

> Being butthurt about getting an email isn't so rare and precious that you should write a thinkpiece about it and post it to HN.

I have not posted to HN. I have posted on the Go mailing lists. I have no control of what is posted on HN. I posted on the Go mailing list because there are other people who feel the same (I know because they told me), and are afraid to talk in fear of repercussions. I posted in the minute hope that things might change.

This incident is just another event in a long streak of events of constant discrimination by some people associated with the Go project. It is no sole event, although my e-mail to the list mentioned only this particular event.

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