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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: 2, Interesting) by loonycyborg on Friday May 04 2018, @03:15PM (1 child)
Though if we'll all leave all projects with CoC wouldn't soon be no project for us to contribute to? This only delays the inevitable. Only way to counter concern trolls is to formalize and popularize principles of FOSS meritocracy so there would be no opening for imposing "ethical constraints" as if there weren't any.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday May 05 2018, @06:43AM
That is the idea, no platforming any who refuse to obey the $current_year Narrative.
If you are out of step with $current_year you may not:
1. Work
2. Contribute for free
3. Exchange money except by physical means ... and they want to abolish that.
4. Assemble with others who agree with you in a public place
5. Post to social media
6. Own an Internet domain name
I hope a group like this is up on current events well enough that nobody tries the tired "citation needed" crap. There are examples of all six categories in the news within the last few months so I'll not be including links. This thread is about #2 and another one on the front page a few articles up is about #6. I think we all know about the problems with twitter, facebook, google/youtube, paypal, gofundme, stripe, etc. so #3 and #5 should need no further explanation. Ask Milo or dozens of others about #4 and James Damore and Brendan Eich from our own industry typify examples of #1.