Monday, September 24th 2018
Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
Through the 1990s, Microsoft had become a super-corporation threatening to monopolize all of computing. A band of talented developers got together with lawyers that could fish out loopholes in proprietary licenses, and with some generosity from big software, Linux grew from a scrappy Unix-like OS kernel to the preeminent operating system for enterprises at first, and handheld consumer electronics later. Today it's most popular operating system on the planet. Like every big organization, the Linux Foundation is hit by employee-activism.
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
Sources:
Lulz, HardOCP
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
653 Comments on Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
In as much as I appreciate the uncandid language from Torvalds, you can't go around cursing at people all the time, just because you disagree with how they do things.
I'm also not sure why these people are upset about the fact that he wants to clean his act up and along with it, the community as a whole.
Obviously, it shouldn't go as far as some comments on this topic is suggesting, that people get ousted because people gang up against someone they dislike for whatever reason.
The world in general needs to grow up, but even more so the people in the tech industry. Move the f out of your mama's basement and get a life outside of what you're doing on the interweb.
I personally think this whole SJW movement is just a completely runaway troll attempt. And people just can't stop feeding it for some weird reason. You have to be extremely dim witted to think anything substantial will change because of it. The best it can achieve is pulling more wool over its own eyes with 'fake' political correctness. People don't really change. Linus won't really change. And recognition based on merit and actual achievement and intelligence is still going to win the day - anytime it won't means your product will die.
Can anyone translate this to human language for non native english speaking people?
If people want to screw themselves, & others, over because their feelings were hurt, more power to them. It applies to the left just as much it applies to the right, or alt right!
Its a pretty tired playbook now, Gaming, Comics, Linux..
Yes it does apply equally across the board, truth be told.
It's a symptom of a new generation that thinks of self above all else, forcing their views onto any and all they possibly can with such acts of intimidation and the threat of bad things happening if you don't play along, in this case looks to me not only is it a matter of agreeing with but also being forced to participate too.
I don't care how big a "D" Linus is, he's entitled to his own thoughts and thats just it, whether you agree with him or not. I'll agree he's earned his share of critisism from things he's either said or done and that's on him.... I don't agree with the thought policing being attempted with this.
I've also noticed those that scream "Fascist" the loudest tend to do so while starting out and continuing to be on the offensive themselves....... It's not about accusations or thoughts but actions taken with such a case.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
If someone is offended for no reason and calls you something like elitist or whatever, I would just say "yes, so what?"
Had this chick at the bar the other night call my buddy a Nazi (even though he is not). I just said to her "so what if he is? Maybe he does relate to the National Socialist ideology?" At that point, she had no argument and ran away (well, back into the bar at least in hopes someone will help pander to her and sympathize on how she was mansplained about being a tool).
P.S. don't draw any other inference (or tangents) from what was posted :cool:
I get the Linus Torvald part, and Linux. The rest is filled with weird words and corporate/political-like sentences that make no sense at all.
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Linux is out, the dude who stopped Intel's RAND creep into kernel is the second target, literally within days. Oh, and the person after him worked for Intel.
The worst part of it is the fake "opression" narrative between the lines.
In the NY article they mention "statistics" of using certain words.
He used gender neutral "bad words" in about a thousand out of 21 thousand comments.
But wait, they didn't even filter out quotes, so, less than that, but well, who knows what exactly.
And wait, it's not all, in some of them (we won't tell you how many, so assume thousand, although it could be one) he used word BITCH.
I was curious and dug for comments of Linus with "bitch" in it and oh, heavens, what do I see:This will be used to push fake narrative of "no women kernel programmers, because misogyny", in a context of an online open source project to which you can contribute freaking ANONYMOUSLY.Linux kernel development is f*cked by identity politics, they got leverage, thanks to Linus accepting CoC and are leveraging it hours later.
Oh, and that NY article came 12 hours after the event, was perhaps written even before it happened.
Am I missing something?