Old Wounds

“I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking.

“It’s easy to shoot your mouth off in the heat of anger, and it
can be hard to apologize for it. But when you finally realize,
unequivocally, that you’ve done the wrong thing, then apologizing
is the right thing to do, no matter how hard it is. I’ve said and
done a lot of stupid things in my life, and the only way to live
with those stupid things, I’ve discovered, is to own them.

“I’m not an active member of the Linux world anymore — but
I learned over the past few days that people still pay close
attention to what I say about that world. I was highly visible in
that small world for a relatively long time. You don’t go from
highly visible to completely invisible overnight.”

Complete
Story