[Libre-soc-dev] RfPs 2021-02-052: The Libre-SOC Gigabit Router declined

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 23, 2024, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

>> I appreciate your taking this into account.

> he has not. in any way.

Uhh, I only meant something like "I'd appreciate if...".

> i even have it from him "we have other autistic people, they
> are real easy to work with"

It's a common misconception that neurodivergents are all similar.  We're
aliens in a hostile planet, but it's not like we all come from the same
alien planet.  We can be quite different among ourselves, even more than
the differences between a neurotypical and a neurodivergent.

> "luke is just being a fucking rude incompetent dickhead".

TBH, you are being over the top.  The difference is that I can
understand what's driving you this way, and that you can't help it under
these circumstances any more than you can help breathing, and I can also
have some grasp of what's triggering you this way and driving you into
this: the politeness, the information and the urgency come across as
extremely threatening.

What would help IMHO is some assurance that payments for engineering
work won't be withheld or canceled, which I'm sure would help bring you
out of this extremely stressed state and enable you to focus on the
management work they're asking for.

The urgency and threats have exactly the opposite effect: they're like
paralizing poison to some of us.

Would it be at all possible to make some explicit separation between
RfPs pertaining to engineering tasks from RfPs pertaining to management
tasks?  That might provide a path forward, unblocking both parties in
this deadlock: you'd get some relief for the stress of having had all
RfPs rejected for work that you have done, and with that I presume you
would be able to get them the reports they need.  Could that be
arranged?

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