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
If a word is so incredibly offensive to you, you are welcome to leave this particular forum, or learn to just ignore the word. As we said growing up, "Grow a spine and stop whining".Did you just ASSUME THEIR GENDER?!?
As for the complaint that there's not enough women in the IT world... well, we can't help it that nobody but men want to write code. It's the nature of writing code. Just look at the graduation rates for IT careers, a majority are MEN!!! You can't force women into doing something that they don't want to do, like many things in life... IT is a calling; not everyone gets that calling. Like most things in life, it's a calling just like there's a calling to be a lawyer, doctor, nurse, or even a priest/minister.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, she is a rare exception. Most women aren't interested in the hard core sciences, it's just how the female brain is wired. Most women go into forms of jobs where nurturing is central to the job, it's what the female brain is wired by nature for. That's not to say that women can't do the hard core sciences but that's just not what most women go into and it's certainly not because men are keeping them down.
The entire programming field was dominated by women for years before men stopped considering it "womanly work."
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programming-used-to-be-womens-work-718061/
If you make it a crusade, it's already a war. The best way to recognition is tea and crumpets. Just a chat, not a parade. Not a fucking circus.
edit: oh yes, bring on the like/dislike/rating war when you don't have any real arguments.
Most people IRL that get called "tranny" are those that put in 0 effort and use it as an excuse to be offended. A huge number of "trans" people today are autogynephiliacs, so many they greatly outnumber actual transsexual individuals. These people thrive in outrage culture, are the ones coming up with this "millions of genders" BS, and utilize that outrage culture to promote themselves and drag others into the lifestyle. Many are riddled with mental disorders and have lived very long lives being unsuccessful, and see their sexual orientation as a major component of their life, thus they fell changing it will fix them. nearly all of these people are MtF. It is a huge problem in the community, and these kinds of people are the ones that get slurs thrown at them regularly.
Of course, I'm an outsider and prefer Windows. But just saying :p
The Online Etymology Dictionary gives the first attested use of "computer" in the "1640s, [meaning] "one who calculates,"; this is an "... agent noun from compute (v.)". The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the use of the term to mean "calculating machine" (of any type) is from 1897." The Online Etymology Dictionary indicates that the "modern use" of the term, to mean "programmable digital electronic computer" dates from "... 1945 under this name; [in a] theoretical [sense] from 1937, as Turing machine".[2]
What am I looking for in this text?
(this is from Wikipedia, and is probably something else than what you read, but this particular explanation is absolutely gender neutral)
This is so off topic though.
People with a dystopian view of the world and assume the worst about many others around them? Not so much.