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Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth
climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community. He wrote,
"Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.' It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's 'birth tribe' and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which Linux distribution they love. ... Right now, for a number of reasons, there is a fever pitch of tribalism in plain sight in the free software world. It's sad. It's not constructive. It's ultimately going to be embarrassing for the people involved, because the Internet doesn't forget. It's certainly not helping us lift free software to the forefront of public expectations of what software can be."
I talked with Mr. Shuttleworth. My impression is that he is not ready for the huge social challenges of running an extraordinarily complex software development effort.
registered users vs. registered users (posting as AC) so they can both insult AND mod down the person as (-1 troll)
I hate that.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Not only that, socialism EATS YOUR BABIES! It's true, I heard it on Fox News.
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Not exactly, although that is what a lot of politics eventually devolve into, unfortunately.
Remember, Democrats are always wrong on every topic because they murder babies, and you don't want to trust a baby murderer, do you? The sad part is that I've heard more or less that specific argument in the recent past.
You wouldn't get modded down as troll so much if you didn't, you know, troll so much.
You drag unrelated (or barely tangentially related) misguided political shit into so many discussions it's not funny.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
And you're making the mistake of assuming everyone engaged in the free enterprise market is honest, moral, and not greedy.. The financial mess we're in now wasn't caused by socialists, but by greedy capitalists trying to game the market.
Socialism is an economic policy. It is not a form of government. I liked to the Wikipedia article. Read it. No, Fox news doesn't know what socialism is either.
Ya know, even if you put a hospital on every block, people will still die.
You are trying to cure an incurable disease (mortality), and I think it's foolish.
Even if you spend 10,000 trillion a year out of the US Government's bank account, people would still terminate. You are trying to achieve a goal that is impossible to reach
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall