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Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community
New submitter Seven Spirals writes: Recently, the FreeBSD folks have removed Fortune with a fairly predictable far right 4chan condemnation. Then last weekend saw a lively debate on NetBSD's current-users mailing list about the inclusion of Hitler quotes in the Fortune database with dozens of posts falling on the left and right. The quotes themselves are fairly tame material probably intended as cautionary. However, the controversy and the reaction of BSD users has been real and very diverse. So far, the result has been to pull Fortune out of FreeBSD and to relocate the quotes into the "offensive" database in NetBSD's case.
It's strange to see the FreeBSD project being attacked like this. My interactions with the FreeBSD and the OpenBSD communities have always been excellent. As long as you do your homework and don't waste their time, the members of those communities are always extremely friendly and willing to lend a helping hand. They are some of the most tolerant, open and non-bigoted individuals I've ever dealt with.
Those communities are a huge contrast to the Rust programming language project's community. Despite all of their claims about being "inclusive", Rust has one of the most tyrannical and totalitarian communities that I've ever experienced in my many years of open source software use. I mean, they even have a Rust Moderation Team dedicated to eradicating/banning anybody they dislike! The justify this eradication squad through the existence of their tyrannical and contradictory Rust Code of Conduct.
The hypocrisy and contradiction of the Rust Code of Conduct is unreal. The very same paragraph that says "we don’t tolerate behavior that excludes people" starts off with "We will exclude you from interaction ...". They openly promise to engage in the same sort of behavior that they claim is intolerable!
It gets even weirder when you look at the list of Rust contributors, and it becomes clear that most of them are young, white males. Of course, there's nothing wrong with being young, white, or male. It's just strange to see such a lack of diversity in a community that claims to go out of its way to promote and encourage diversity. I've seen much more natural diversity in pretty much every other open source community I've ever dealt with, especially the ones that don't go out of their way to focus on diversity in any way. It's like diversity happens best when you aren't fixated on artificially creating it.
I think that the FreeBSD community is being wrongly smeared here. It's one of the most open and friendly communities I've ever dealt with. Yet while this excellent FreeBSD community is being attacked without merit, absolutely nothing is done about open source communities, like the Rust community, that in my opinion promote censorship and intolerance while claiming to support the opposite.
Utter BS, so Stalin purging groups of communist suddenly makes Stalin and the Soviet Russia not communist.
Your logic is the same incorrect logic spewed by Socialists, saying since one group of party kills a large group of the same party that makes them not the same party.