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Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated (drupalconfessions.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot previously covered the story of Larry Garfield, a Drupal developer who was allegedly banned from the community for his BDSM/Gorean lifestyle, after he was outed by a colleague with a grudge. Now, dozens of core Drupal developers, committers, and funders have banded together in an open letter to Dries Buytaert, the CTO of Acquia, Drupal trademark owner, and Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) of the Drupal project. Among other things, they demand that Larry Garfield be reinstated, threatening to abandon the project if their demands are not met. Here's an excerpt from the letter: "If you will not fight for us and restore our faith in the professionalism of the Drupal community, then a number of us will be permanently leaving the Drupal community, ceasing all contributions to the official, Drupal-branded branch of the codebase, and ceasing participation in all Drupal communities. This is not our first choice, but we cannot and will not participate in a community that encourages abusers to totally destroy people's careers for personal or ideological reasons."
O yes all good devs just love to take over projects from crappy devs.
Please txt me the number to your dealer i want what you are smoking
Work found out the secret to my productivity was dressing up as a Jewish schoolgirl and getting fucked in the ass by fat hairy dudes in Nazi Hitler uniforms. HR fired me anyway even though the motivational boost I get from my fetish made me the most productive member of my team. My boss begged HR not to fire me, and as punishment my boss was forced into early retirement. Now I'm unemployed and not even Herr Trump wants to hire a Nazi fetishist.
It would be a boring world if people could not enjoy some socially-unaccepted hobbies in private without fearing for their employment.
I suppose it depends on which society you live in. I live in the SF Bay Area, and nobody cares if you are BDSM, your gender, or whatever. We are totally tolerant ... as long as you don't smoke. We don't even want those disgusting fume emitting tobacco burners within 100 meters of our building. Gross. They should stay in Oakland.
As someone else has already pointed out below, only if it affects performance. I'm from the 1960s, so quite sympathetic to recreational drugs. As for the 'obedient statist motherfucker', please look up ad hominem argument on Google, it should be fairly easy, even for you.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
Max Mosley might be hiring?
The obvious rebuttal is that no, the "Gorean lifestyle" has no such beliefs. It is a game - make believe.
The problem is, sanity isn't obvious to these people.
Glad I ditched Drupal years ago. Heaven forfend Dries finds out what my Amarrian characters in EVE Online think of the Minmatar.
He got pounded pretty hard for wanting to bang his daughter.
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