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Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org)
Following Linus Torvalds' public apology for his behavior over the years, the Linux Community said it will be adopting a new "Code of Conduct", which pledges to make "participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of 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."
Just imagine how quickly kernel technology will advance now that the mailing list is a designated safe space for special snowflakes.
Our Pledge
===========
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and
our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of 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.
Our Standards
=============
Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
include:
* Using welcoming and inclusive language
* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
* Focusing on what is best for the community
* Showing empathy towards other community members
Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
advances
* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
* Public or private harassment
* Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic
address, without explicit permission
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
professional setting
Our Responsibilities
====================
Maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior
and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to
any instances of unacceptable behavior.
Maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject
comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are
not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any
contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening,
offensive, or harmful.
Scope
=====
This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of
representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be
further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
Enforcement
===========
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
reported by contacting the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) at
. All complaints will be reviewed and
investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and
appropriate to the circumstances. The TAB is obligated to maintain
confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of
specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
Maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may
face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the
project’s leadership.
What's the difference between "gender identity and expression" and "sexual identity and orientation"?
RMS is not a kernel développer you know.
I assume "works for Intel" is still fair game, right?
Log in or piss off.
I really, really, really wish these had been handled non-concurrently. It's virtually impossible not to analyze or comment on the two events together, which leads to some unsettling connotations for some.
While I think Linus taking a breather to maybe not be as much of a dick while still demanding high quality code is an admirable moment of self-reflection, the roots of this Code of Conduct are quite unsettling.
One really can't discuss the wording of the CoC without discussing the Contributor Covenant and the larger philosophical goals of the Post-Meritocracy manifesto.
From the CC:
From the PMM:
These are explicitly political documents... and they should be addressed as such. I don't think anyone has a problem with "don't be a jerk, and don't make it personal" in an open source project. Arguably, Linus has stepped over the line on occasion. The adoption of this document goes far beyond rectifying a mere lack of teeth in telling people to "Be excellent to each other"
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
We were here first. Get the hell off my lawn.
It was about time they apply wheaton's law. "Don't be a Dick !" https://dontbeadickday.com/
Is everybody insane?!
In post-modernist theory, those two things are the same though.
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This is the end of Linux as we know it. The "Code of Conduct" is teeming with words and phrases that indicate the project is now going to be policed by Social Justice Warriors who will micro-manage everything. It means that the Linux kernel is no longer a meritocracy.
The only "code of conduct" ought to be: "my code doesn't care about your feelings". You can't develop good code in a Safe Space.
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BULLSHIT.
-- Linus Torvalds, LKML, 21/1/2018
COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.
-- Linus Torvalds, LKML, 21/1/2018
WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?
-- Linus Torvalds, LKML, 21/1/2018
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So if I noob it up on the kernel mailing list none of the senior engineers with salaried work to do can tell me to fuck off? Sweet!
The unintended consequence of this will be that formerly open source but mission critical projects will just go into closed development like Android to keep the noobs and trolls out.
I bet they assume you can do it by using a crap-ton of unicode emojis. Or something.
This is going to be what is used most of the time:
What that actually means in practice is that you cannot safely go through someone's code review and leave honest comments that demonstrate that the product is fundamentally bad. Welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can. Well, a lot of the time you can't do that.
What they want is to create for FOSS the same space they have in corporate America where HR, not line management, deals with things like personality conflicts that blow up. It's not going to make people polite, it's going to make people afraid to just be blunt with active, thin-skinned people who cannot stand to hear that their contribution is not good enough.
...that a software community should try to make of people a piece of software. Good luck with the debugging.
E Proelio Veritas.
Sure, you should be able to behave. In an open source endeavor, I see a formal document saying so as superfluous. You want to kick out someone for being a bad actor, kick them out. It's not like they can come back and sue you for not accepting their contributions. Professional environments engage in codifying a code of conduct because they want things as clear as possible to protect against wrongful termination suits if they decide they need to terminate someone for being a racist. If the kernel community wants to disassociate from a jerk, they shouldn't need a document to justify that action.
Formality in various forms can cripple open source communities. It is a significant contributor to bureaucracy.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Documentation cares about gender. In many languages, many other words in a sentence have to agree in gender with the noun they relate to. The most common of these is pronouns ("he" or "she"), but they also include occupation words, adjectives, and sometimes even verbs and second-person pronouns ("you"). Use a noun of a different gender in Spanish, Polish, or Hebrew, for instance, and you change endings of a lot of the words in the sentence. So in order to say anything substantial in those languages about a person who contributed code to Linux, you have to make the other words agree with the contributor's gender. They require this in part because the word order in those languages is not quite as that of English.
The hard part is when the "unsure" gender gets translated to languages other than English. Though English allows use of the plural pronoun "they" to refer to singular animate indefinite gender, and adjectives don't agree, many languages lack an analogous provision for nonbinary or unspecified gender. In Spanish, all nouns are -o or -a; in French, bare or -e; in Hebrew, bare or -a. What should be used when describing the contributions of a nonbinary contributor?
Welcome to the real world, Det. John Spartan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Thank you. f**ing SJWs --- You got fined for violating the verbal morality statute
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Why?
Is the Rust group full of people who's demographics people were insulted?
There is a difference between judging a particular idea and deeming it wrong vs. insulting a person due to their demographic, psychological and biological situation.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It's pretty obvious who the asshats in the community are, now we just need to hope that the social justice warriors don't go overboard and maybe we can get some useful, positive change.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
I had no code of conduct. I do not have one now. I use Lunux so I am de facto part of said community.
What is next: white males have a new code of conduct?
So fuck off with your code of conduct. I do not even vare how good it is and how much I might agree with it. I will never be ok with any opt-out.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Yeah, that's right, I said 'you' ... bwa ha ha! Stick that in your code of conduct!
The kernel is an engineering project. As such, meritocracy is the only sane way to run it - just like building bridges or ships - if your code is good then it's in, no matter who you are or what you or anyone else identifies you as. There's simply no reason to accept someone or their work if it's sub-standard no matter how hard their lives have been (or are perceived to have been).
The issue of diversity is a social issue and has to be/needs to be solved elsewhere.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
He is hardly gone and now this. The PC-police must having their iltimate orgasm. What the fuck where they smoking?
Cunts. The lot of them. And not in the nice Australian way.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
With baited breath I await the first pull requests that removes offensive words like "master" and "slave". And then the incredible outage that occurs because disks don't work anymore.
Pushing for the PC agenda in order to please feminists and leftists generally ends up badly.
No one is fooled by claims that this is just "being encouraged to treat other people decently." It's about power and control and the people seeking it are not benevolent. They are hate filled activists and they have targets in mind.
Level of experience? Just wait til the first newbies flood in. That's be the first tenet to be violated.
Social Justice Warriors advocate social justice in the same way as The National Socialist German Worker's Party advocated rights of Jewish workers in Germany.
The absolute requirement to address people with welcoming and inclusive language means that even this is not possible:
If you can behave to the standards which would be required in literally any professional workplace in 2018, you don't need to be involved. If you can't do that, there are plenty of forums to write angry posts about SJWs while you wrote your own OS.
That's kind of an odd statement, regardless of your feelings.
The "meritocracy" is who built Linux. The SJWs didn't.
When the culture of the group says it is okay to make ad hominem attacks, then questions of motives are inevitable. Cut the gordian knot by talking about code by discussing the actual code and not the people writing it.
We were here first. Get the hell off my lawn.
It's not your lawn, and it never was. It's the users' lawn. That's why it's GPL-licensed. Or alternately, it's the users' lawn because it's GPL'd. Either way... still not yours.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...or there's a pod under his bed.
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How many of you keyboard warriors complaining about "people's feelings" were abused in high school? Do you remember that shit? This is about defining that bad behaviour and excising it to make a healthier community. You can still reject code. You can still reject changes. You just can't be an asshole/bully about it.
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Can any project prosper when technical success is no longer top priority?
Is there any way of forking off the whole damn thing to leave the SJWs to flounder in their own safe space? Linus has capitulated. I liked him better as a competent asshole than in his new incarnation as a wimp. But NO ONE OWNS THE CODE. Or something. These open source licenses confuse me.
Forking is divisive and fragmenting, you say? Compared to what?
Not a problem, so long as they can all gather and regroup somewhere else.
Here's a name for the new fork of the Linux kernel: Galt's Gulch.
95% of the berating about race is people like you bemoaning the presence of so many white people in the space. The reason why a non-white getting berated and abused by a white person in these spaces makes headlines is because it's a "man bites dog story" compared to the other way around.
I've known a few brilliant individuals. I've known many meek individuals. But I've yet to encounter both traits in the same person.
(Then again, how would I know?)
Meekness doesn't work. Sooner or later, a brilliant individual will figure this out.
Any coder worth his salt knows this is a red flag.
Anyone who doesn't see this is not a good coder.
This is not going to work because the real problem is about time. It takes significantly longer to be nice and show patience than it does to be mean and to the point. Someone with Linus' responsibilities just isn't ever going to feel like they have the time to be nice to everybody. If you want to improve peoples' attitudes in something as huge as the kernel community, than you need to change the heirachical structure to something with a lot more depth. Linus shouldn't be dealing with 2/3 of the people he is currently dealing with. If he isn't directly interacting with them, then they won't be getting offended by him either. Those people should be interacting solely with developers with less responsibility and therefore more time to be nice.
>if jackasses could fly this place would be an airport...
The extremists from the left, the cultural Marxists, the SJWs have so far destroyed anything they got their hands on: Academia, schools, the media. Linux will be no exception.
If there is any doubt on their agenda, read "The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto", but in fact, the title says it all. What we're experiencing is a Maoist cultural revolution and the new mob rulers will install themselves in each and every corner of society.
There is no shortage of talented people, and as such, there is no need to make room for everyone. There is a fair number of excellent developers with a thick skin, and it's more than enough to make a project like the linux kernel progress at a steady pace. There is no need to broaden the circle to people that are supposedly good but don't like to have their feelings hurt.
Video of some good progressive thrash music
If you can behave to the standards which would be required in literally any professional workplace in 2018, you don't need to be involved.
Well said emperor Jahoda. Obviously "professional workplace" is some kind of standard open source must follow... because?..??.. well.. obviously... because you say so!!
Will you by decree force open source members to write documentation? Order them to work on anything other than what they damn well please? Are you to interview contributors making sure they meet education and background requirements? Will there be drug testing? Will they be forced to participate in meetings or else face dismissal? Will you verify identity? Exclude old people from working on projects? Many professional workplaces conduct regular performance reviews. Are you going to do that as well? If I don't meet expectations on my performance reviews or my drug test does not come back clean will I be banned from contributing?
If you can't do that, there are plenty of forums to write angry posts about SJWs while you wrote your own OS.
Fragmentation is exactly what you can expect from open source projects and communities when unnecessary politics are injected. More forks, less coordination, less interoperability.
Some people look at code of conduct and what they see is oppression and intolerance. They see cowardly people who would rather censure and silence others than tolerate utterances they themselves find offensive, disagree or could possibly "offend" or "trigger" someone somehow. To them codes of conduct are disappointing, dangerous and contrary to the values of free society.
Subject says it all. If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
Who is the malign force behind the undemocratic imposition of this petty-authoritarian CoC on an unconsenting community? That person or organization is almost certainly also responsible for the ignominious purge of Free Software world hero Linus Torvalds.
Follow the money - Progressives are always bankrolled by big money financialists and their running dog "non profits". Only a tiny minority of the population support their totalitarian policies. Without the big money they would be nothing but fringe wingnuts ridiculed by everyone.
Follow the legal threats - Progressives always use the iron boot of the police state. There's no way they could impose their deeply unpopular puritanism without the violent coercive power of the state. Linus and perhaps other Linux leaders are probably being blackmailed with legal threats.
Let's find our villain, so we know who is working so hard to destroy the Freedom in Free Software. #ResistTotalitarianism
I bet dollars to doughnuts that Linus is right 99.99% of the time but some wordings in his mails really sound childish. I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing, but if I were him I'd wait a day before sending that response and rephrase it in such a way that everyone knows the only douche wide and far is the guy insisting on having crap merged into the kernel.
That would be way more effective and way more embarrasing.
I suspect Linus is going to get some advice on this and then start doing exactly that. It will be a little more work, but finding a secretary in helping him formulate those mails or someone good in wording doing some editing when he needs to publicly push back on non-sense in a steadfast manner shouldn't be to much hassle.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
There is no slippery slope. Never is. It's always a straight fall of a cliff. This is the point where sub-par coders who worry more about what pronoun to call their dog rather than putting out a working product start to take over.
Linux by tumblr. Spooky. Just in time for Halloween.
... they wrote a complicated version of "We will all try hard not to be assholes."
Great. Awesome. I am over-effing-welmed.
Can we now get on with improving the kernels power management on laptops? Thanks.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Not Linux Only!
This blog is in a need of something related.
I personally decided to contribute to Windows (much more friendly coders & moderators),
after be bullied at Linux.
What part of this are you not getting?
Being blunt, no matter how civil, is not "welcoming and inclusive." As I said: welcoming and inclusive refer to a specific emotion which is to make things as warm and bubbly and positive as you can.
You are reading this through your "reasonable person" glasses, not through the glasses of the sort of person that actively pushes codes of conduct on every project bigger than a 1000 LOC and 1 maintainer.
As it stands, I agree with you, but that's not relevant here because your normal, sane reading is not what the activists intend to use.
Have you noticed how these authoritarian CoCs are always imposed without a popular vote and without the consent on the communities they are forced upon? I wonder why...
So left-handers and tab-users are still fair game for abuse?
(There's a reason the TAB key is on the left of the keyboard...those bastards!)
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Lol, ok buddy. You seem to have some pretty strong views about this. And as far as the community going back to however you percieve it to have been in whatever golden age, well, wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first. Change with the times, or they will leave you behind. Period, the end.
The real shame is that it took him this long.
Kriston
He's a user too, jackass.
He's just one of billions. His share is a blade of grass. That's why we all have to share, so we can use more than that.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Now how the Hell are we supposed to rip on someone's shitty code and general incompetence?
Maintainer's Hurtful Comment: "We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack."
Contributor's Complaint: "[Piercing whine] The Maintainer's comment was harassing and hurtful by ridiculing my autism and other learning disabilities when calling me retarded, belittled both me and my contributions as unimportant by revealing my minority status as an uplifted rhesus monkey, and has created an exclusionary and hostile working environment by holding me up to ridicule by publishing private information about my struggle with non-prescription drugs."
Enforcement Kangaroos: "After careful review and deliberation, this Technical Advisory Board has determined that the while the Maintainer in question has maintained the kernel with an exceptional level of quality and transparency for many years. Further, the Technical Advisory Board finds that the Contributor has made no positive contribution of any kind an any point to this Project and an objective analysis has shown that the Contributor has proven to be an ongoing hindrance to this Project.
"Nevertheless, despite the facts uncovered by this review, the Technical Advisory Board has determined that the Maintainer has not followed or enforced the Code of Conduct in good faith, continues to express public distain and disregard for the Contributor. The TAB has decided that while the Maintainer's comments are objectively true and the Maintainer's actions are objectively justifiable, that the Maintainer is, effective immediately, permanently removed from the Project because the appearance of meanness is more important than the actual success of the Project."
No argument whatsoever, brother. However, FYI, one Linux distro does avoid that shit for the most part and that's Devuan (and Slackware and a handful of others). Problem for me is, I still prefer BSD after tasting it. Once I understood that Linux was just a box of parts and BSD was an engineered whole, it made sense to me why I had always sensed so much suck from Linux. I missed out on 386BSD. Was a Linux user (SLS and Slack mostly) from 1993 until around 1998. Then I started playing with NetBSD off and on, but mostly ran Linux for the display drivers up until about 2010. Then after rotating between Free, Net, and Open BSDs for a few years I gave up on Linux completely when Systemd gained acceptance in Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. To quote Rollins: "At first I didn't see at as kind, but you did me a favor when you left me behind." BSD has just rocked so much harder. I do still keep Devuan around on a USB drive to play some games, though. Hehe, sad, because that's what I used to say about Windows.
Wayland also == crap. Asshole devs who dropped XDMCP because "Dhaeerp, it's hard." and tried to pawn off some crippled X11 server for retards by retards. Let me restate more briefly: it came from the Fedora / GNOME crowd. There, now you really know how bad it is.
If you allow people the bigots and Nazis hate to compete, you'll get more good code to choose from than if you limit prospective contributors to, well, people the bigots and Nazis approve of.
Or you can have a walled garden, with less good code because you've excluded a huge class of people who can write code, from whom to choose the good writers. Just like Microsoft or Apple, who need Linux these days, because they can't do the job...
davecb@spamcop.net
Just wondering if this "New Code of Conduct" isn't some indication of a slow slide or an eventual crash dive to oblivion.
Social justice is not about seeking true equality, it's about collectivizing people by their races and genders, then putting those in an "oppression stack", where the ones that are in an "oppressed group" get systemic advantages over the others in a very crude attempt to equalize the things.
While it in most cases have a good intention in mind, it's still a quite terrible way to do things as you will injustice countless of people.
Add the point that in many cases this movement push down people "with privileges" instead of pulling up the "oppressed" and you get a quite terrible system.
Because they strongly imply somebody screwed up earlier, you know.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Computers are dead. You can go home.
I call bullshit. Most nerds are libertarians. I'm not a partisan of any kind but that's been my experience, and from the high pitched sound of your whining, I can tell who has more of that. Tell it to James Damore, Linus, Deraadt, etc... Let's not even talk about Stallman and ESR who are right off the political map (so left they are right? So right they are left? *shrug*). If you are in the position to hire folks, you aren't likely to be a good judge of technical skill anyway, Mr. Coward. You probably hired the fucking H1Bs at Disney. You sound like the kind of person who's angry (butthurt?) that the term "Social Justice Warrior" has taken on such a negative connotation because you know that's exactly how you think of yourself. Just a guess, Mr. Coward, but try getting out of Seattle sometime.
I take it by "toxic as hell" you mean: "I whined, but nobody ran over and helped me up." Yeah, I know. I like that.They do tend to like you to read the man pages, Coward. It's not Ubuntu or OSX for a reason, but you definitely aren't gonna understand that.
"stand in a sitting manner"
"shout in a silent manner"
This simply makes no sense, sorry.
Excellent example for Orwellian doublethink, though.
Or really the right to be individuals for everybody.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Torvalds 2.0: Patricia Torvalds on computing, college, feminism, and increasing diversity in tech
https://opensource.com/life/15/8/patricia-torvalds-interview
Don't know about Kubernetes, never heard of it
Everyone uses it these days to deploy into the cloud.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
At least that was the plan, now we're going back to Docker because filing a Kubernetes bug report gets you all sorts of grief about your formulations being too male-centric aggressive.
You have discussions like this: https://github.com/kubernetes/... - where hundreds of dev-hours are spent on renaming something because they found "PetSet" to be offensive to animals AND THEY WENT ALONG WITH IT.
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Social justice is not about seeking true equality
No. Social justice is about social justice. If I notice that some people are not being treated fairly I would, as a decent human being, not do that. Bing a decent human being is all you need to be. Don't be nasty to people and try and treat them fairly.
it's about collectivizing people by their races and genders, then putting those in an "oppression stack", where the ones that are in an "oppressed group" get systemic advantages over the others in a very crude attempt to equalize the things.
That would be a misguided attempt to right one wrong by creating another. Are you reading more into attempts to right injustices than are actually there?
...Add the point that in many cases this movement push down people "with privileges" instead of pulling up the "oppressed" and you get a quite terrible system.
You are quoting the methods of the UK Conservative party. Until recently, the most right-wing but mainstream in Europe. They always equalise to the inferior option - pensions, insurance or whatever. Yes, some people here may think they have made a fairer world, for example by raising the female retirement age rather than lowering the male one. Justice is not the same thing as equality of misery.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
I agree that there is Babylonian confusion on the term "left" and "right". I have many older who self define as "left" and have nothing to do with Identity politics or mass immigration.
I, for one, derive my conception of left and right from there actual historic origins which far predate Karl Marx, namely the French revolution. The Jacobins set at the left of the speaker and this is where our political left-right scale comes from. The Terror of Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety was the first "modern" left government.
So "left" my book means totalitarian, etatist, revolutionary, anti-democratic and violent. They stand for total control of the individual, are opposed to personal liberties and want to destroy any cultural and historic identity of their subjects, which they call "progressive". A tell-tale sign of left ideologies is the use of the word "reactionary" for the political opposition.
This definition has served me well, as leftists are the habit of constantly changing and arguing about the ideological fineprint.
> SJWs have all the hallmarks of right-wing extremists
Its the other way around: National socialism is yet another left movement, historically grown out of opposition to Stalin's international (but in reality Russian, i.e. Sowjet-) socialism. The people saw what happened in Russia, considered the right (i.e. the conservatives) as too weak to protect them from the communist mob and turned to the Nazis - and got essentially the same deal. Shit happens.
I canâ(TM)t believe the comments here. This code of conduct is some really basic stuff. All it says is âoedonâ(TM)t be an assholeâ. Most larger companies have similar rules. First of all, I wonder: where do you people work? Is it ok to call people idiots, morons, cunts etc. at your workplace? If not, why should it be ok in free software development? Second: what is it about profanities and insults that is so important that we must protest this code of conduct so vehemently? Does it make for better code? Does it improve peopleâ(TM)s motivation? Their skills? If so, Iâ(TM)d like to see some evidence because to me it sounds pretty damn counterintuitive that you could improve people by yelling at them. Third: what planet are you living on where women, immigrants, gays and people of other minorities canâ(TM)t take criticism but instead calls you a racist/sexist/homophobe? Because to me it has NEVER happened. Seriously, how big of a problem is this? In the real world people donâ(TM)t treat each other like shit. Iâ(TM)m happy Linus has realised this. If you canâ(TM)t bear to abide by such simple rules without throwing a tantrum then you must be a very gentle snowflake indeed.
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Lol, ok buddy. You seem to have some pretty strong views about this. And as far as the community going back to however you percieve it to have been in whatever golden age, well, wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first. Change with the times, or they will leave you behind. Period, the end.
How can these statements be falsified?
After the Hindenburg disaster of 1933 was it time to get on board with genocide because...well... I wouldn't want to be left behind? Heil Hitler.