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    SJWs vs Linux devs

    Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” – LULZ

    Linux powers the internet, the Android in your pocket, and perhaps even some of your household appliances. A controversy over politics is now seeing some of its developers threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code, potentially destroying or making the whole Linux kernel unusable for a very long time.
    The controversy
    Activists from the feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities have been trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant since at least 2015. The Contributor Covenant is an agreement to implement a special Code of Conduct (frequently CoC from now on) aimed at changing the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming. CC’s Code of Conduct is controversial particularly because it allows anyone to be banned from contributing code for any reason, usually with no mechanism for oversight or accountability.

    On September 16 the pro-CoC side got their wish–Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the CC Code of Conduct–and they immediately set about using it to remove top Linux coders.
    If the threat is put into action, ramifications could include large parts of the internet being left vulnerable to exploits, and companies around the world might even inherit bundles of unwanted legal liabilities.
    "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

    #2
    Social Justice Warrior, must be getting old as I had to look that one up So moving forward positive discrimination will mean only weird weirdos will be able to code Is this another millennial snowflakey thing or the end of civilisation as we know it

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      #3
      Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
      Social Justice Warrior, must be getting old as I had to look that one up So moving forward positive discrimination will mean only weird weirdos will be able to code Is this another millennial snowflakey thing or the end of civilisation as we know it
      It's mainly to do with Linus Torvalds having been an absolute arse to everybody for as long as Linux has been a thing, and finally accepting that maybe that just means he's an arse and he should learn how to do his job without being one.

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        #4
        Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
        Social Justice Warrior, must be getting old as I had to look that one up So moving forward positive discrimination will mean only weird weirdos will be able to code Is this another millennial snowflakey thing or the end of civilisation as we know it
        They are using this new code of conduct the cull what they see as an over representation of cis straight white males. They want to end the meritocracy and force diversity instead:

        1. Fostering an inclusive and safe space for women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color, who in the absence of the CoC are excluded, harassed, and sometimes even raped by cis white males.
        2. Lack of CC’s CoC sustains meritocracy, which “has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in technology“.
        3. The vast majority of Linux contributors are cis white males. CC’s Code of Conduct would enable the building of a more diverse overall demographic as people who aren’t cis white males feel welcome to join and white male harassers are weeded out.
        4. Being against the CoC means you want women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color to be harassed.
        This is their reasoning to start banning coders who are now in turn retracting the usage of the code they have written...
        "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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          #5
          Originally posted by Jog On View Post
          They are using this new code of conduct the cull what they see as an over representation of cis straight white males. They want to end the meritocracy and force diversity instead

          This is their reasoning to start banning coders who are now in turn retracting the usage of the code they have written...
          A meritocracy has no prejudice so is the proper vehicle for human endeavour. These people forcing their view of diversity have much in common with the German brown shirts of the 1930's just with straight white guys as their target, a rather nasty development

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            #6
            on the internet nobody knows you are LGBT?

            FFS!

            Just contribute and report any abuse.
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #7
              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              on the internet nobody knows you are LGBT?

              FFS!

              Just contribute and report any abuse.
              Can I just have the keys to the outrage bus?
              Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                #8
                Originally posted by tazdevil View Post
                A meritocracy has no prejudice so is the proper vehicle for human endeavour. These people forcing their view of diversity have much in common with the German brown shirts of the 1930's just with straight white guys as their target, a rather nasty development
                Yeah but they are not interested in reality just in pushing the LGBLT with mayo on brown agenda

                which is based around where you like to stick things to get your jollies rather than what actual skills you have.

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                  #9
                  I've never come across any prejudice against minorities in software development and I can't see this advancing any cause but to take tolerance in the opposite direction. Anyone who gives in to this nonsense is a damn fool.

                  To be honest the most common prejudice I ever see as a contractor is mediocre devs forcing out the competent and this looks like a new riff on this old tune. You can tell it's the end of empire when you start to see a "war on competence".

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
                    I've never come across any prejudice against minorities in software development
                    Aren't Linux devs all anonymous internet handles anyway? How the hell do the SJWs know that:

                    women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color, who in the absence of the CoC are excluded, harassed, and sometimes even raped by cis white males.
                    It would be comical if they weren't being taken so seriously and being enabled by corporations and institutions caving in to their demands.
                    "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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