So, none then? I've written zero operating systems, and like two userland tools (mostly special-purpose file archiving and packing stuff because I didn't know about tar). Then again, I still have respect for people that have bashed together crappy toy OSs.
Most people are worthless (just look at the distribution of wealth on this planet), most art is worthless, etc. etc. If we judged all our actions based on some silly notion of how ultimately worthless they were, we never would've gotten out of the trees because why bother.
As my mom used to say, a doodle has a right to be a doodle. Lighten up.
What possible use does it serve? Morbid curiosity is the best you can say for it.
That critique applies to lots of humans, especially those in the third-world working purely at a subsistence level in their own communities and with only insubstantial capital in their ownership. Their dreams will never amount to anything, and the vast majority will never know they even existed.
That, incidentally, is why I think that critique is repugnant--whether applied to a person or their work.
The fact that you haven't (presumably, though you might just be too shy to admit actual experience) implemented an operating system gives me reason to think you don't actually know what constitutes "terrible". Unless you can list facts and deficiencies of the system compared with others, you're just being parroting an opinion.
Great timing you've got there with deciding to step in. How about actually paying attention to the spamming and gaming of the system instead of jumping on me for getting annoyed with someone making me repeatedly explain myself?
I even removed part of what you quoted before you responded, and the part I didn't remove is obviously half joking.
Sorry I missed your edit—and thanks for editing to make your comment more civil—but what remains is still not ok, and there have been other examples recently. Language like that adds noise rather than signal, and causes harm even if the intention wasn't to.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Most people are worthless (just look at the distribution of wealth on this planet), most art is worthless, etc. etc. If we judged all our actions based on some silly notion of how ultimately worthless they were, we never would've gotten out of the trees because why bother.
As my mom used to say, a doodle has a right to be a doodle. Lighten up.