SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Lest you think this is yet another CoC, the guidelines assure you that they are not a CoC.
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
The GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, initial version, have been published in https://gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html. On behalf of the GNU Project, I ask all GNU contributors to make their best efforts to follow these guidelines in GNU Project discuaaions[sic].
[ . . . ] The difference between kind communication guidelines and a code of conduct is a matter of the basic overall approach.
A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them.
[...] The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules." The way we do this, rather than ordering people to be kind or else, is try to help people learn to make their communication more kind.
[ . . . . ] I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action
The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 29 2018, @03:48PM (3 children)
Yeah they really caved on that.
The Mozilla Guidelines document is interesting because its basically a "declaration of independence" or "sovereignty declaration" WRT corporate speak and corporate trademarks. Its not really a story about how they like to talk, but mostly a story about how they (for some weird value of they) are sovereign in themselves, not the first amendment or any other legacy political organization or their physical meeting places rules or hosting providers rules. So that's interesting. Its not really a story about what they're regulating as much as its an assertion that they have the right to regulate as much as they figure they can get away with.
Part of the purpose of that is to abuse it, of course, but on its face its not terribly controversial, you can't go on someone else's mailing list and post some off topic stuff IF they're sovereign over their own space and trademarks and have the force and will to use it to enforce their will.
We're headed toward the cyberpunk FOQNE concept in a really weird path; not via real estate or imaginary property ownership or franchises like the 80s cyberpunk novels implied in a wide eye'd boomer mentality, but rather via weird trademark and community sovereignty statements.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 29 2018, @05:19PM (2 children)
We are talking about the mozilla that ousted Eich...
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @11:04PM (1 child)
Poor Eichmann got punched in the face... *sad puppies*
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday October 31 2018, @11:08AM
Eich did nothing wrong, but javascript.
Account abandoned.