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Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.
LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Friday May 04 2018, @02:37PM (2 children)
> On 50% of the resumes they had names like "Tom" and "Jane"
So all they proved is that name discrimination happens rather than racial discrimination, oh, and that they are idiots.
Name discrimination isn't racism and besides, most places your name is a choice (unlike your skin), and you can change it from the one your parents lumbered you with if you want to. In fact it is my understanding that some of my own ancestors anglicised their names.
Now, making the unwarranted assumption that people called Tom or Jane can't be black, _that_ might be racist, and is probably offensive to people like:
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/mcallister-dr-jane-ellen-1899-1996 [blackpast.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @06:11PM
Wow, such self serving ignorance. You really want to pretend that it is simply name familiarity discrimination? We have words to describe people like you and they aren't nice.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday May 04 2018, @08:02PM
That's true provided that you live in a common law country (Five Eyes, Ireland, and South Africa) or a country whose name change laws resemble common law (e.g. Norway), and you're an adult, and you haven't recently moved to a different region (state, province, etc.). Some jurisdictions set a minimum age for name change at 16, 18, or 19, and/or require having lived in the same region for three months.
It's generally harder to change one's name in a civil law country, as these countries presume that a name change is to evade taxes or other debt. In some cases, you actually have to sue your city government.
Source: "Name change" on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]