But frankly, consider that he is posting all over the place anyway, trying to hide his issues away accomplishes nothing. Drawing attention to the fact that his often extremely offensive comments are due to mental illness rather than malice is not a bad thing in that context.
He's accomplished a lot of things that most people never will, despite his illness. He's one of the reasons I have showdead on.
I am glad I got to check out his page, and apart from the technical aspect, some quotes realy made me ponder, e.g:
Imagine a billionare. Everyone around him can't forget his money for even a moment. The truth is, most people are after God's "money" -- they fear for their salvation. Here's a test -- would you pray to and praise God even if there were no salvation? Love God and don't be a "user". Asking for stuff is annoying. Luke,11:5
I agree. While I am no longer Christian, I really liked his perspective that one should love God as an inherently good act, rather than out of fear or a desire to get Good Things Later.
He's reiterated that in a (dead) comment on this post:
> Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that."
> I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David.
>Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore.
He said the problem was "legacy PS/2 keyboard/mouse emulation", that's why he can't run TempleOS natively. The Secure-Boot reference is more related to dual-booting I think.
One of my best friends has a mental illness. Society should get over it, and learn to deal with it.
I've never met or spoken to Terry Davis, but I think he's amazing (and I'm an atheist). His code is incredibly inventive, and I don't know of many people who have achieved what he has single-handedly.
That people with a mental illness can do stuff too? They use computers just like 'we' do? They can actually write OS' so it might be interesting to see what he uses to get his stuff done?
I'm actually a bit underwhelmed since I'm more interested in the actual tools he uses to build TempleOS.
