No need to speculate:

> @MarnanelThurman No problem, at least there was some fun ;-)

So I'd say the answer to your question is: "some". Some being more than none, I'm almost tempted to think they enjoyed this little episode.

You'd also have to add the joy of all the people encountering this. Since it's somewhat likely that someone typing "man" after midnight and forgetting the parameter is somewhat frustrated, I'd venture a guess and say this easter egg is a net positive for humanity. Since happy people working after midnight are better than unhappy people working after midnight, I'd even go so far as to say that it improves productivity. And productivity is my professionalism.

It's extremely common for CI to break for no good reason. My bet is that they launched their suite again and only bothered mentioning it because how unexpected the fail was.

I personally like to stumble on extraordinarily stupid bugs. Bonus points, if the author works with us (or is myself), we get to laugh at his expense forever after.

About as much fun as they had using free software they did not pay for of which they were free to browse the source code to their hearts content.

So you're saying that free software is not reliable and you can't have any sort of expectations from it, so it shouldn't be used for "serious business" (enterprise, government, ...)

Yes, I believe that's exactly what they're saying.

Their CI script is not adequate to deal with the standard output of a man after midnight.

The one who was working at 00:30? Go to sleep dude!