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> I cannot at all get worked up over this, getting to the point I'd pull out the word "poison" to describe it.

Kovid Goyal has a history of being incredibly opinionated to the point of being combative and toxic at times. He makes some great software, I’m a user of kitty, but this hyperbolic tone about this issue is not shocking to me at all.




Reminds me when he said he'd maintain the entire python 2 language instead of upgrading Calibre to use python 3

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107

There are a lot of other gems too if you look through Calibre's bug tracker

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1894442

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/853934




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