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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by Jiro on Friday May 04 2018, @02:58PM (1 child)

    by Jiro (3176) on Friday May 04 2018, @02:58PM (#675687)

    There's also this: "In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may, in rare cases, affect a person’s ability to participate within them, when the conduct amounts to an egregious violation of this code." Which amounts to "we can punish you for anything you say anywhere on the Internet. However, it's at our discretion, so we won't use it when someone we like makes a comment on the Internet about a group we don't like".

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @05:00PM (#675734)

    yeah, or "if your comments stir up enough shit to make us look bad, even if it's our pals stirring up all the shit, we may have to let you go, b/c we're a pack of sneaky weasels"