open source projects should have anti-acknowledgments, e.g. "project is kept maintained despite the best efforts of the xenophobe [name] that kept harassing the lead developers"

@whitequark reminds me of the "Anti-Foreward" written by Dennis Ritchie, which the authors of "The UNIX Hater's Handbook" later confessed was the best part

(The whole thing is now free, Ritchie's section is PDF pages 37-38)

web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.p

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@jhwgh1968 @whitequark "To Ken and Dennis, without whom this book would not have been possible" hahahahahah

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