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Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca... by oldcynic on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:25PM (#17163169)
When it cropped up here a while back I don't remember anything seeming problematic with FreeBSD's new CoC. What's the issue with it?
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Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca... by cucumberferity on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:42PM (#17163272)
The problems in FreeBSD CoC were widely discussed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406946

When people approached some of the FreeBSD Core Team with their concerns about vague language that could be subject to abuse, they were basically told they were all racist transphobes who weren't welcome to contribute to FreeBSD anyways.

So it was a pretty obvious politically-motivated power-grab.

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