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2018-09-18 Cyber

Linux Goes SJW, Adopts "Code of Conduct". We All Know How This Ends

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Posted by charger 2018-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

None of this shit has anything to do with building software. The quality of your code or the completeness of your design does not depend on how fat you are or who/what you like to boink. This is one of those engineering domains where there are objective standards of good and bad that have nothing to do with anyone's feelings.

The Python (a computer language) community just had a dust-up over whether the engineering terms "master" and "slave" were offensive.
Prediction: some high-profile member of the Linux community will be driven out by a mob in the next few months.

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.”
-- comedian George Carlin

Posted by SteveS 2018-09-18 01:29|| 2018-09-18 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 An organization can have one central mission. As soon as it has two, both will suffer.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-18 06:56|| 2018-09-18 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 SteveS -- Linus *is* a high-ranking member of the community. Now, from what I've heard, he does need to work on his communication skills, or get some distance between himself and the OS he's been working on for over 25 years. The biggest question is whether he will return to the project or find something new to work on.

But, yeah, generally this crap is going overboard. The SJWs are demanding to be treated as equals, then complaining when they don't perform as equals and are called out on it. The bizarre attacks on terminology are just muscle-flexing -- how much power do they have? Is it enough to control the language yet?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-09-18 07:35|| 2018-09-18 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think the people driving the narrative will allow for taking indoctrination training before the fact as insurance against being called out later.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-09-18 07:54|| 2018-09-18 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 notice that under the code you can still harass conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians

Posted by lord garth 2018-09-18 11:43|| 2018-09-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Prediction: some high-profile member of the Linux community will be driven out by a mob in the next few months.

Fortunately there's no institution that is in control of the Linux kernel.

Those who will be driven out (and that's certainly going to happen) can freely modify and distribute the kernel under the GPL.

I predict a fork as the LKML goes dysfunctional. The Linux kernel will survive.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-09-18 15:44|| 2018-09-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#7 For fellow not so geeky (or not so up-to-date) readers, the tragicomic context omitted by ZDnet:

This new code is based on the Contributor Covenant. This open-source code of conduct is already being used by such projects as Eclipse, Kubernetes, and Rails. It was created by Coraline Ada Ehmke, a software developer and open-source advocate.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-18 15:55|| 2018-09-18 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Linus *is* a high-ranking member of the community

Linus *created* Linux, put it in the public domain, and created the Linux community. So yeah ... 'high-ranking member'.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-09-18 16:03|| 2018-09-18 16:03|| Front Page Top

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