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Are you seriously going to sit there and argue that open source is a sheer meritocracy with a straight face? Okay. Here are 4 examples:

• Ruby on Rails sexism.
• Mark Shuttleworth refers to Linux as being “hard to explain to girls”. Ensuing flap is brutal.
• DrupalCon Paris homepage objectifies women. Although to be fair, the organizers made changes in response to pressure.
• Stallman refers to EMACS virgins, specifically "women who had not been introduced to EMACS" along with the advice that "relieving them of their virginity" was some sort of sacred duty for members of "The Church of EMACS".

That's the result of a 5 minute google search.

I think the lack of female involvement in projects is actually the cause of the sexism, not the other way around.

So maybe if more women actually bothered to get involved, it wouldn't be considered an all boys club and comments like these wouldn't be made.

• Ruby on Rails sexism.
• Mark Shuttleworth refers to Linux as being “hard to explain to girls”. Ensuing flap is brutal.
• DrupalCon Paris homepage objectifies women. Although to be fair, the organizers made changes in response to pressure.
• Stallman refers to EMACS virgins, specifically "women who had not been introduced to EMACS" along with the advice that "relieving them of their virginity" was some sort of sacred duty for members of "The Church of EMACS".

That's the result of a 5 minute google search.

The question now is: Will Lessig be stupid enough to support Messiah Obama again in 4 years. Only time will tell.

Lessig is not a one-issue voter, despite his strong positions on copyright. His reasons for supporting Obama in 2008 are available to read (and there's a video around, too), and they were not limited to copyright issues. They weren't even principally about copyright.

Lessig was most interested in Obama's foreign policy and how much better he thought it would be than the foreign policy of the people who brought us the Iraq War. Remember, Lessig is somewhat libertarian in his leanings, and a libertarian foreign policy would never have allowed for the Iraq War. The professor also liked Obama's pledge not to take money from corporate lobbyists, which is a major issue that Lessig seems to care about almost as much as copyright reform, if not more. Bad, one-sided policies that favor major industries are more or less guaranteed when those industries are allowed to line the pockets of the legislature, so one could argue that government reform is a precondition of good copyright policy. (Government reform is the goal of his Change Congress movement, which sadly I haven't heard much about lately.)

So even with a poor, one-sided copyright policy (and we certainly seem to be headed toward more of the same with Obama), it's the non-copyright shifts away from Bush era policies that seem to weigh with him more. If Lessig's positions are unchanged in 2012, and if the Republicans are unchanged in 2012, I'd be very surprised if Lessig backed anyone else but Obama.

> Where's the keystroke or mouse-click to get to the implementation?
EMACS and tags; Meta-.
> For auto-completion?
EMACS and dabrev; I bind it to Meta-Space.

> Where's the IDE that finds errors while I'm typing?
EMACS and flymake; It works for Java, PHP, perl, python, etc.

Here are screenshots of it working with python, all candy-colored for your editing pleasure, with mouseovers or minibuffer reports of errors as you type:

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/10/15/productivity-a-year-on

A petition I found for stopping lilo's silliness.

http://void.printf.net/~chris/petition.pl

For some better insight as to what was going on at the time, you should read at the very least this page.

See petition here.

Read Eterm developer Michael Jennings' thoughts on the matter here.

You have every right to disagree with Rob Levin's behavior. Lots of people do. But how does this have anything to do with the decision to use OPN for what it is intended for?

If you consider it a successful forum for Open Source developers, and you have nothing but respect for the other staffers, I don't understand why there is cause to discourage the use of OPN.

I've been upset with this too. I wouldn't put it as above, although there are some valid.. statements, heh ;)

Try this url too for a petition against this silliness.