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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:44AM
Psychological projection at it's finest; "increasingly loony posts" indeed!
Oh, you have no idea! This is just what I think Pacifists might do to jmorris. My imagination tends to the darker side, more like, "50 Shades of jmorris". If I could, I would make jmorris face the fundamental indeterminancy of existance, the pure lack of being that allows beings like us to be present to the world. Only then would the pure "being-there-ness" of the "well-known-liberal-bias" of an absurd and irrational objective world have its full impact on the jmorris, causing him to realize that we all are not ever only what we are, we are not things, we are subjects, perceivers, persons, and each one of us, especially SJWs, are deserving of respect and even admiration for how we deal with a universe devoid of meaning and full of Right-wing Nut-jobs.