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"More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK"

I read this as simply being honest (in the "Dutch" sense). It wasn't like he was shit-talking his former co-workers, per se. He's just saying he had a radically different appraisal of technical viability of the flagship product.

Which, again, was simply the truth as he saw it.




Simply being honest doesn't mean you're not unneededly insulting everyone around you. He can say he had a radically different appraisal of the technical viability of mySQL without calling everyone he works with an idiot.


He's not saying, or even insinuating, that they're "idiots".

Really, look at the dictionary definition of the term, please.


Everyone who works on mySQL is going to read this to mean he thinks they're idiots, and that's what matters.


You don't know that -- and even if some of them do, that doesn't mean that interpretation is justified.




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