Uh, what if every would-be open source contributor wrote a grandstanding blog post promising only to submit patches if the maintainer(s) publicly eat crow for an offhand remark they made ... :)
Zed is a gifted hacker of software systems, but I don't really think he's all that good dealing with other mammals.
I'm sure he's a nice guy -- he actually seems like the kind of person I'd be friends with -- I just think it's appropriate to sort of call him out on the grandiose blog posts :)
I'm all for it to the extent that Zed is building his personal brand and (in essence) being a self-promoter. If he really feels self-righteous about it, then that's a bit worrisome.
Zed vs Guido is exactly the sort of David vs Goliath story that makes for entertaining reading...
Zed is a gifted hacker of software systems, but I don't really think he's all that good dealing with other mammals.