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From The Mozilla Open Source Blog:
We are delighted to announce the first set of awards in the Mozilla Open Source Support program's "Foundational Technology" track, which supports projects that Mozilla uses or relies upon.>
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The first seven awardees are:
Buildbot: $15,000. Buildbot is a continuous build and integration system which has been immensely valuable to Mozilla over the past few years. Their award will be used to remove the term "slave" from all documentation, APIs and tests, and also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
CodeMirror: $20,000. CodeMirror is a powerful source code editor built with Web technologies, used in the Developer Tools and in Mozilla Thimble. Their award will be used to improve support for both right-to-left languages and complex script input.
Discourse: $25,000. Discourse is online discussion forum software, used by several Mozilla communities. Their award will be used to make email a first-class interaction mechanism for Discourse, allowing Discourse instances to replace and improve upon mailing lists.
Read The Docs: $48,000. Read The Docs is a website for building and hosting documentation, used by many of Mozilla's Web projects. Their award will be used to add the ability to generate documentation from code without needing to install it, thereby making it easier to build the documentation for complex projects.
Mercurial: $75,000. Mercurial is a distributed source code management system, used heavily by Mozilla for core repositories such as mozilla-central. Their award will be used to implement better support for 'blame' (showing who last changed some code) and a better web UI.
Django: $150,000. Django is a popular server-side Web development framework, used in many Mozilla websites. Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.
Bro: $200,000. Bro is network monitoring software, which is at the heart of Mozilla's intrusion detection system for our network. Their award will be used to build the Comprehensive Bro Archive Network, a public repository of modules and plugins for Bro.
(Score: 0, Troll) by NotSanguine on Friday December 11 2015, @10:30PM
So they're giving 15k to remove the word slaves from a project that used it as a technical term with no offense intended or likely committed.
Ten times that to another project that is far more associated with the word slave than "Buildbot" ever was.
Then they give even more than that to a project named "Bro" seemingly completely oblivious the word "Bro" is recently become offensive to a lot of people.
If those are really the issues you have, don't use the products in question.
There are very few reasons to restrict speech, and your (and other people's) thin skin is not one of those reasons.
Nothing I (or anyone else, for that matter) say can actually injure you. They are just words. If you don't like the words certain people use, that's too bad.
If you have nothing better to do than chastise people for their language use, why don't you lobby to limit the freedom of speech? I imagine that would suit your authoritarian impulses.
You're not the arbiter of speech. Appropriate speech is the speech anyone chooses to use. You are welcome to say what you want (including the drivel you just spewed), but don't think you won't be called on your advocacy of censorship or your authoritarian world view.
Personally, I'm glad you find those words offensive and my sincere wish is that people continue to offend you for many years to come.
What's more, go fuck yourself vux984. Does that offend you? I sure hope so.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:33PM
Reading comprehension isn't really your strong suit, eh? You do realize that statement you quoted was pointing out how absurd and hypocritical the things Mozilla was asking for to be done, right?
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Friday December 11 2015, @10:34PM
Except they never say they are offended. What you quoted was pointing out the hypocrisy of Mozilla. Way to completely miss the point. *golf clap*
(Score: 3, Insightful) by vux984 on Friday December 11 2015, @11:05PM
If those are really the issues you have, don't use the products in question.
I don't have those "issues".
There are very few reasons to restrict speech, and your (and other people's) thin skin is not one of those reasons.
And seeing as I don't have those issues, most of the rest of your post serves to flame an imaginary person you projected onto me. But that's ok. I agree with your argument; although its a bit weird to actually watch someone burn an effigy of oneself. Thanks for that.
My original post had 2 parts:
part 1 -- to express ridicule and disgust that Mozilla thinks spending 15,000 to remove the word 'slave' from software documentation involving a technical meaning of master/slave. I think its ridiculous. (Evidence I don't have the 'issues' you mentioned.)
part 2 -- to express further ridicule and disgust that Mozilla is not only doing something ridiculous as described above, but that they managed to be completely oblivious to the ironry of paying $15,000 to remove the word slave from one package while endorsing "Bro" with 10 times the endowment without so much as batting an eye.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by NotSanguine on Friday December 11 2015, @11:14PM
And seeing as I don't have those issues, most of the rest of your post serves to flame an imaginary person you projected onto me. But that's ok. I agree with your argument; although its a bit weird to actually watch someone burn an effigy of oneself. Thanks for that.
My original post had 2 parts:
part 1 -- to express ridicule and disgust that Mozilla thinks spending 15,000 to remove the word 'slave' from software documentation involving a technical meaning of master/slave. I think its ridiculous. (Evidence I don't have the 'issues' you mentioned.)
part 2 -- to express further ridicule and disgust that Mozilla is not only doing something ridiculous as described above, but that they managed to be completely oblivious to the ironry of paying $15,000 to remove the word slave from one package while endorsing "Bro" with 10 times the endowment without so much as batting an eye.
My mistake. And I don't even have an 'ethanol fueled' excuse either. Sigh.
I guess I can take some solace in knowing that while I was completely off the reservation, I at least did so with purpose and gusto. Yay me!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @11:15PM
It's ok. Those of us with elementary school level reading comprehension got your point. GP is simply a tard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @11:07PM
It reminds me of Julia Robert in the movie "Erin Brocovich" - she had a way of getting angrier the longer she ranted.