Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[Feline Supremacist]

Sarah Mei is insane and I don't know why anyone takes this crazy bitch seriously. And the guy who was disinvited or whatever for wearing a MAGA hat? He should sue the Linux macfags into oblivion.

 

[Norvic]

This is what code of conducts were designed for. They're a way of institutionalising the REEEEing mob. When someone gets in to the sights of these useless fucks, the code of conduct lets the organisation throw them under the bus for "legitimate" reason so they don't have to weather the mob themselves.

It's cowardly in the extreme that big projects and companies won't stand by their own contributors in the face of pressure from non-contributing parasites, and long term the cost to them for kowtowing is substantial. I think it's just that, when any company gets to a certain size, management tends fill with cowards and idiots who are terrified of their name being attached to internet scandal.

 

[Cubanodun]

Someone actually said without a hint of shame the "listen and believe" just wow and everything for a freaking hat

 

[Shoggoth]

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This looks like too much fun. Wonder if I can improvise something with a foam roller...

 

[CIA Nigger]

There needs to be a software license that prevents the licensor from ever arbitrarily yanking it because they troon out, turn into an SJW, or otherwise lose their fucking minds at some point in the future. No businesses, or even nonprofits, will ever use open source shit with the "Loony Troon Public License."

That's one of the silver linings of FOSS licenses. Even if say the creator of the program pulls an Oracle and slaps on a restrictive license (see XChat, cdrecord, aesprite, etc), you can still modify and redistribute the previous GPL versions. Numerous controversies have happened numerous times in the past revolving to sudden license changes.

This man's thesis is intriguing- he is certainly right about American 'men', and the previous righteousness of Professor Dr. Stallman, though I think he is overly critical of the behaviour of American women in the absence of male leadership- but he should have considered a reasonable compromise option. The GNU Project should create a coreboot fork that excludes binary blobs even from the repo, thus providing functionality well in excess of what Francis Rowe (M)'s shitty little fork provides.

That would offer all the advantages without the impact on the honor of free software.

It should be noted that Mr. Rowe, who I understand has only very recently achieved the status of dickless faggot from his present state of just being a faggot, prefers VIM over Emacs. This should tell you everything you need to know about him.

What's interesting about Rowe is that after calming the fuck down about how bad RMS was, he went back to being a diehard Stallmanite to the point of blaming the "rightwing media" on taking him out. Despite this, Libreboot's only contributions for months have been from everyone but Leah Rowe. There also hasn't been a release of Libreboot since 2016.

Libreboot's former core audience doesn't give a shit as much about blobs as much as the FSF did. Thanks to this Coreboot is not only supported on more systems, but because Coreboot wasn't affected by Leah's tranny meltdowns (and had more big corporate support) it's still in active development. Libreboot might as well serve as a example of what happens when tranny drama causes a project to fly off the rails. Before Leah trooned out and while it was getting constant updates it was seen as a critical FOSS project by the FSF and the Linux community. Now everyone either is using the less free Coreboot or has completely ignored that issue in favor of newer issues like meltdown/spectre.

This is the long term effect of troons in FOSS projects. Projects get wrecked, devs leave or fork the project, and another project is left crippled when FOSS is needed more than ever.

 

[PhantomDiploma]

Going on a limb here, but Sarah may consider herself one of these "folks being harassed".

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[Shoggoth]

Going on a limb here, but Sarah may consider herself one of these "folks being harassed".

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Which is interesting considering she's perpetrating continuous targeted harassment. If irony were strawberries, we'd have lots of jam by now.

 

[Shoggoth]

An unfortunately accurate rundown of the latest happenings regarding the LF and Kubecon.
https://reclaimthenet.org/linux-foundation-censorship-kubecon/ | https://archive.li/OJWpv

Spoiler: Cancel culture taints The Linux Foundation, developer publicly disinvited from event over political opinions

by Didi Rankovic November 9, 2019 - 9:54 pm ESTNovember 9, 2019 - 9:54 pm EST

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If you were asked to name two things that make Linux different from any closed-source, proprietary solution out in the world today, those two surely would have to be: for one, Linux has won – as the internet's and therefore, the world's tech infrastructure, used by operating systems based on this free and open-source kernel.
And, two – however carefully the custodians of the Linux kernel, the Linux Foundation – that has some of the biggest tech companies among its platinum sponsors, anything from Google, Microsoft, Huawei, to Cisco and IMB – might work to “moderate” the Linux development space – it's still a system by and large developed by free people expressing their thoughts and opinions freely.
There are, from time to time, controversies and soul-searching issues, but thankfully, they always take place not in some obscure conference room or secret internal communication channel. Free and open source is not only used, but also developed, and discussed, out in the open, for anyone to see.
However, should that hold true even when real-world politics wade in, and when the issue concerns the organization's own code of conduct? That's an exceedingly interesting dilemma for anyone invested in the Linux ecosystem, and one now posed by programmer Robert Martin, one of the Agile Manifesto authors, who published a letter on his blog addressed to Linux Foundation's figurehead Jim Zemlin, and other high-ranking representatives of the organization.
In it, Martin asks why the Foundation decided to act on a tweet denouncing KubeCon – a conference dedicated to a leading open-source containers system – for allowing programmer Charles Max Wood (@cmaxw) to participate. The complaint had not to do with Wood's professional history, but with his political persuasion.

His offense? “A request for an open and civil phone call, and a picture of Mr. Wood wearing a MAGA hat” – i.e.. a hat with a slogan made famous in the 2016 election campaign of serving president, Donald Trump. But more widely than that, his political opinions and trying to mediate between a friend and those who were upset with him.
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Could this possibly be enough to exclude a software engineer from an industry event? According to the Linux Foundation, the answer is yes. A tweet confirming this mentions such things as “code of conduct” and “safe spaces.”
Meanwhile, Charles Max Wood's own attempt at dialogue has been met with a deluge of profanity.

I have personally met Charles. I won't say we are friends, but if I saw him id say hello. I don't think we share the same political beliefs and honestly, I don't care if we did or did not.
If I had to consider his political or religious beliefs then, that would make me a bigot
— Sani Yusuf (@saniyusuf) November 7, 2019

Should he suffer financial and reputational harm because of that?
To me this looks like cyber bullying of someone you disagree with.
This is why I said look in the mirror.
I really hope you do reflect and wonder if being part of that hateful mob is really a good thing to do.
— Praveen Perera (@PraveenPerera) November 7, 2019

Many in the developer community are weighing in on the situation, and the growing cancel culture with a group once renowned for its ideas on freedom.

It's all so tiresome. It's enough to make a man mad.

 

[Eigengrau]

Oh Lawd. Is it gonna be donglegate 2.0? Are they really interested in dropping the guy only because he's a Trump supporter? Did he do anything besides that?

He's not even a Trump supporter, he only put on the hat as a joke.

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The red hat pic is just dirt being used against him out of context, the real reason he's getting cancelled is asking Kim Crayton to be civil, which you can see on the post right before mine. She's a real lowcow and her twitter is a gold mine.

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She's not actually a programmer, here's a piece explaining how the stuff she does IS VERY TECHNICAL despite not actually mentioning what her job is beyond vague terms like "professional development" and "business operation strategies".

I Don’t Do Non-Technical Talks

We will never change how tech does business until we change how we redefine technical.

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[Eigengrau]

We all joke about "lol macfags" but as I recall the same sickness apparently spread to the Gnome foundation. Developers worshipping Macs, then removing features and dumbing down interfaces ala MacOS, then CoC nonsense. It's just correlation, but it's interesting. Everyone is so hell-bent on being trendy.

The GNOME Foundation is a cancer on the Linux community. They impose their arbitrary decisions without listening to users or developers and have this strange philosophy of stripping away as many options and customizability as possible. Their "vision" is more valuable than feedback, and when people criticize them they say that "it's impossible to cater to every workflow" because they refuse to let people choose how to use their desktop. Worst of all, they refuse to collaborate with other projects and demand that programs either only work on GNOME or only work on other desktops. The few third-party tools that exist break all the time because the API isn't stable and they don't accept downstream patches (like the ones Canonical made to GTK, which is why Unity is only available on Ubuntu).

 

[PhantomDiploma]

Propaganda & Other Lies We Tell (archive)
Despite supposedly being an exhaustive account, there were a few omissions.

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This was missing (of course):

Or any other *ahem* unsympathetic screenshots:

This is apparently a thing for her.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Why doesn't that interesting specimen have a thread?

 

[Shoggoth]

The red hat pic is just dirt being used against him out of context, the real reason he's getting cancelled is asking Kim Crayton to be civil, which you can see on the post right before mine. She's a real lowcow and her twitter is a gold mine.

>Extending a level of courtesy that wasn't being reciprocated
Bitch, wat? That's her being courteous, you see?

She's not actually a programmer, here's a piece explaining how the stuff she does IS VERY TECHNICAL despite not actually mentioning what her job is beyond vague terms like "professional development" and "business operation strategies".

Wahmen in tech, not even once

Why doesn't that interesting specimen have a thread?

Because it's indistinguishable from all the other similar specimen in the tech field.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Coreboot is the actual project, it can be compiled without binary
blobs, and has an command line option to do so.
Libre boot is Coreboot without the binary blobs.

This seems to me to be more progressive due to not needing binary blobs, I assume that it can be compiled with non-binary blobs and transitional package blobs yes?

yes, I hate me too

 

[Coffee Anon]

Has anybody figured out what actually got Linus to agree to a CoC for Linux yet?

Was there some key individual or organization pressuring him? It's been a while since it happened; perhaps some info has leaked?

 

[Shoggoth]

Has anybody figured out what actually got Linus to agree to a CoC for Linux yet?

Was there some key individual or organization pressuring him? It's been a while since it happened; perhaps some info has leaked?

His feminist daughter

 

[Coffee Anon]

His feminist daughter

That was the theory on day 1. I'm sure that's not the real reason, since I doubt she works on the kernel or is involved in its politics.

 

[PhantomDiploma]

I may be a bit slow, but this just occurred to me: the Linux Foundation's decision made literally every involved party a little less safe.

After the Linux Foundation announced Charles Wood's cancellation on Twitter, more strangers started going after him, and the people currently harassing him stepped up their attack. The more people who know about Charles and the more they go after him, the greater the odds that one of them is a literal crazy who ends up stalking him, etc.

The Linux Foundation's decision to cancel him via public announcement and the inconsistent standard they employed - "tone trolling" versus literal targeted harassment - also got people's attention, as well as the callous and unprofessional way they went about it (talking about choosing his replacement based on her race/sex in the same thread they announced his cancellation, etc.). People start pointing out the hypocrisy of the Linux Foundation by noting the statements and tactics employed by Charles's critics, now bringing them into the spotlight. Again, the more people paying attention to his critics, the more likely one is a nut who's about to snap.

It's actually impressive in a sense - in a few tweets, the Linux Foundation compromised the supposed reason the Code of Conduct was forced through in the first place, "safety". Though, if "trust and safety committee" jobs keep these people from programming, then maybe Code of Conducts are keeping us safe in their own little way.

 

[AnOminous]

The Linux Foundation's decision to cancel him via public announcement and the inconsistent standard they employed - "tone trolling" versus literal targeted harassment - also got people's attention, as well as the callous and unprofessional way they went about it (talking about choosing his replacement based on her race/sex in the same thread they announced his cancellation, etc.).

Publicly announcing a job opening and that you're illegally going to discriminate on the basis of race and sex in hiring for it is a really stupid thing to do. It's illegal literally fucking everywhere. It also seems to announce that they fired and then defamed this guy based on clearly racially discriminatory reasons.

 

[Norvic]

Perhaps I'm super slow, but I've only just realised. I've seen this shit happen before:

This is literally Atheism Plus all over again. For anyone not familiar, Atheism Plus was an effort to redefine atheism to be not just not believing in any deities, but also to tack on a host of other, completely unrelated positive beliefs that had to to be adhered to or you weren't actually an atheist. It would probably be reductive to say that Atheism Plus destroyed the New Atheism movement, but it certainly didn't help. It alienated even people who broadly supported the atheism plus extras because they were expressed as a dogma, you couldn't pick and choose or opt out entirely.

I guess now it's open source's turn. Now we're going to be told that just releasing the source is not good enough. We're going to have conform to some external ethos that not be our own, or even particularly relevant to the project or our cultural context. We're going to be told that we have to raise money to pay contributors because it's not "fair" that some people are underprivileged and don't have free time to contribute.

My understanding of open source has always been that it's a form of philanthropy. I write software at home, on my own time and release it for free for anyone to make use of. It's an act over and above the rest of the economy. I do this because I enjoy it and because I've benefited immensely from other people doing likewise. This "ethical source" shit is dangerously close to arguing that philanthropy is problematic because only the "privileged" can engage in it. That's the level of absurdity we're dealing with.