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That's probably a good choice, since it makes a perfect response to "politics shouldn't matter, here, just merit." Turns out...
And the merit of dhh is highly tarnished by him being an overall piece of shit. No, politics always matters.
And it also should come into focus when it's about a highly opinionated piece of software
yes they should talk about it but that's not what he's reviewing. He's focusing on the hype around the OS and if its even deserving of that. Why would a tech review bring in politics, it would come off as him just hating dhh and some would wave him off as a "hater". I think the fact that he's just talking about the software gives him credibility and shows that dhh is just a shit developer when it comes to operating systems. There's already enough pieces about how he might be a shit human being but not enough about if he's deserving of his merit just because he helped developed ruby on rails.
sure sure, but the review is about an OPINIONATED SOFTWARE e.g. the Opinions of DHH. So of course it should be part of the review.
A shit opinion of Dhh is for example, that you can't partition or use a partition as the target in the install script and have to sacrifice an entire disk..
opinionated software is about how you think software should behave. its not about personal world views related to how a person thinks other people should be treated in the real world.