I'm happy to leave the dev alone. I don't really care about the dev one way or the other.
What I don't like is to have some piece of infrastructure I've come to depend on yanked out suddenly, being mislead about the reasons, and being left with only onerous alternatives (rewrite the whole thing or stick with 7.1a indefinitely). That these two options are onerous is not speculation or simply some kind of bad attitude. It is a fact.
Whether this action was deliberate or just incredibly clueless and negligent, treating TrueCrypt users this way is crappy, and I think it's OK to say so publicly. I'm grateful for the development of TrueCrypt. But that gratitude doesn't translate to a free pass for all subsequent terrible behavior afterward.
If the dev's identity was known, he/she might take a lot more heat than a few harsh words. Considering the needless trouble he's putting people through, a strongly-worded letter of protest is a pretty mild reaction.
What I don't like is to have some piece of infrastructure I've come to depend on yanked out suddenly, being mislead about the reasons, and being left with only onerous alternatives (rewrite the whole thing or stick with 7.1a indefinitely). That these two options are onerous is not speculation or simply some kind of bad attitude. It is a fact.
Whether this action was deliberate or just incredibly clueless and negligent, treating TrueCrypt users this way is crappy, and I think it's OK to say so publicly. I'm grateful for the development of TrueCrypt. But that gratitude doesn't translate to a free pass for all subsequent terrible behavior afterward.
If the dev's identity was known, he/she might take a lot more heat than a few harsh words. Considering the needless trouble he's putting people through, a strongly-worded letter of protest is a pretty mild reaction.