Tom Lord on why TLA failed:
Perhaps you are unaware that you and yours stand accused of manufacturing, in effect or by intention (who can say), the perception that I am difficult to work with.

Gold.

But someone else gets it:
It's sort of ironic that the lead developer in a distributed versioning system was able to have such a chokehold on development, but it was true.

mumble my opinion mumble not my employer's necessarily mumble not on the arch team anyway mumble just something I found hillarious mumble been vaguely following arch development for a bit over a year mumble peanut gallery mumble