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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:11PM (#491656)

    Ha, No shortage of these bigots. [youtube.com] They're neo-puritans and even more obnoxious and deluded than the conservative Christian groups who used to crusade against pop music, movies and video games.

    They use their own identity as a attack vector. Instead of basing their value on what they do, it's what they are which is usually quite irrelevant. At least in STEM.

    It's irrelevant in the personal context in which they attempt use it, but not, as Bill Maher points out [youtube.com] in the grand scheme of things.