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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:19PM (2 children)
I just lost all respect to FreeDesktop.org. They can keep their nazi bullshit. Btw, i rename SJW to SIN, social injustice nazi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:50PM (1 child)
That's an insult, to Nazis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:15PM
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Well, according to the SIN manifesto, there's nothing anyone can say, that does not insult someone (with the expection of white males), except if you are a inside member of the SIN collective.
But seriously harrasment and discrimination needs to stop, but then they start with that diversity bullshit and their own third hand "justice" systems, "insensitive language" and one of the most ridiculous slogans of all time "assumptions of gender". Fuck that. I'll swear in my fucking comments if i feel the need.
And i will never accept contributions from anyone only because it'll bring "diversity". What ever is contributed needs to work, in bare minimum at a concept level. If an experienced contributor contributes shit and/or tries to bend the project to shkles own agenda, shkle needs to get yelled at, but to inexperienced contributors one should be more calm.
I can understand helping these "less active groups" in becoming more active, but forcing this crooked path is no way to go. You can't force good "divert" contributors out of thin air.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:17PM (7 children)
I've got one question for all you whiny little pussies who think freedom of speech is more important than freedom of association.
What are you going to do about it?
Put your money where you mouth is and fork those projects.
After all, if being a jerk is such an important factor in software development it stands to reason that any pro-jerk fork would easily attract the best talent, right?
Except that's never happened in the history of social injustice whiners.
And really, that's no surprise. None of you whiners actually have talent. At best you are like the mighty bummer - delusionally self-praising of their own mediocrity.
Most of you don't even pretend to that level of competence, you've got literally nothing to contribute beyond your knee-jerk admiration of jerks.
Look at the current poster-boy for jerks - Uber. They had one half-decent idea - try to circumvent taxi regulations - and yet they lost 3 billion dollars in 2016 alone. [techcrunch.com] Being a jerk seems to work pretty good for tricking delusional jerks into throwing money at you. But when it comes to producing something meaningful and lasting, that shit is useless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:06PM (5 children)
Freedom of speech and freedom of association are equally important. For my part; I simply refuse to associate with those who would restrict freedom of speech. You seem angry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:19PM (4 children)
> Freedom of speech and freedom of association are equally important.
What an lame anondyne statement.
You can't have it both ways.
This group wants to limit their association to those who don't run their mouths like assholes.
So you pick - is it more important to be 'free' to be an asshole, or more important to be free from people who behave like assholes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:43PM (3 children)
No, they're embracing those who run their mouths like assholes. The exclusionist SJW's who epitomise everything they claim to oppose.
Definitely more important to be free of SJW's. Thanks, and have a nice day!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @11:22PM (2 children)
> The exclusionist SJW's who epitomise everything they claim to oppose.
Yes!
The Real Bigots™ are those who exclude bigots merely for having a different opinion!
They are so stupid they can't even see themselves!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:24AM (1 child)
Projection. Why would somebody be a bigot for refusing to abide by arbitrary rules? We have freedom of speech and of association -- get used to it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:34PM
> We have freedom of speech and of association -- get used to it!
We have rules -- get used to it!
Oh, that sort of smug arbitrary declaration of victory doesn't work when the other side does it?
Funny how that works.
You are free to go associate with someone else.
This thread is about sacking up and forking the code.
But all you can do is whine, no action just crying, because you don't have the skill to do anything else in life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:20PM
What's your major malfunction?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
they seem to have reworded the CoC since the story broke. It is better than it was. the original was completely infuriating. i'd like to know who the authors were for that version so they can be taken to a beach and harpooned on youtube. i don't have a problem with people saying that harassment will not be tolerated but you have to have a really fair way of implementing that. what is considered harassment/other needs to be really nailed down (and voted on by all contributors) and so does the investigation and remedy process. you can't just make some vague pronouncements about not being a mean white male(or whatever happens to be demonized at the time) and then allow some secretive (or slanderous) witch hunt to be the remedy process. Is this really that hard? also, the other way, as another poster mentioned ,is just remove the social part from the project. just code. no human bullshit. since people can't seem to defend themselves without some "righteousness patrol" being created. define the code quality guidelines and give contributors numbers(not sexist/raciast/transphobe numbers though).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @08:22PM
I agree with you, but i'd like to know what is a sexist/raciast/transphobe number?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:50PM
High praise to the warriors of social justice! By infecting freedesktop with their memetic virus, they have earned the greater open source community a reprieve. Now instead of pumping out shitty code, freedesktop's resources will be gradually reappropiated towards the punishment of wrongthink until their output is nothing but bans. It is hoped that this infection will continue upwards into the corporate overlords of Linux (Red Hat, Canonical, and co.) and back down into the tendrils they use to control the Linux ecosystem (GNOME, Poetteringd, etc). Once their rotten edifices have crumbled away, then there may be hope that Linux will rejoin the One True (UNIX) Way. This is my prayer.
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