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FreeDesktop.org Adopts CoC for All Member Projects

posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @07:43AM   
from the i-can't-tell-who-is-toxic-anymore dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Michael Larabel over at Phoronix brings us news of a stealth Social Justice coup over at FreeDesktop.org:

X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct.

The Contributor Covenant for those unfamiliar with it is trying to promote a code of conduct for open-source projects that is trying to promote diversity and equality of contributors to libre software projects. From the covenant's website, "Part of this problem [of "free, libre, and open source projects suffer from a startling lack of diversity, with dramatically low representation by women, people of color, and other marginalized populations"] lies with the very structure of some projects: the use of insensitive language, thoughtless use of pronouns, assumptions of gender, and even sexualized or culturally insensitive names."

The covenant states in part that those contributing should use welcoming and inclusive language, be respectful to others, showing empathy towards others, avoid insulting comments, and avoid inappropriate conduct. For the most part, it's basically common sense.

Now it seems this Contributor Covenant is being forced onto all FreeDesktop.org-hosted projects.

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• Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illogic Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illogic (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday April 10 2017, @08:42AM (3 children)

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday April 10 2017, @08:42AM (#491553) Homepage

  > But why is it that we can proudly refuse to use software created by corporations whose often aggressive business policies we disagree with, but continue to adopt software written by sexists, racists, homophobes, transphobes? What makes these people immune?
  
  Because:
  (A) financially supporting corporations directly supports those corporations being aggressive and using policies we disagree with, it financially supports monopolistic behaviour, for example; but
  (B) using software written by sexists, racists, homophobes, and transphobes does not support their sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia, it's just using the functions of some software. The authors may not even know, and may have not have received any remuneration, and therefore cannot benefit from you using their software.
  These are practically incomparible situations.

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• Re:Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illog (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:17AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:17AM (#491559)

  This is the world we live in. A world of logical failures left and right, propagated at the speed of light.

  Last week it was consenting behavior is misogyny -- GOR.

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• Re:Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illog Re:Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illog (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:51AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:51AM (#491575)

  I'm pretty sure you ride on railways and roads originally built by slaves. How dare you, sir. How DARE you!

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  • Re:Commentary (covenant's 2nd link) contains illog (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:57AM (#491590)

    cry us a river

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