Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy”

Re:Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy” by malvosenior on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:45AM (#18167340)

Is there a place where developers who disagree with this type of political movement can gather? I do believe in meritocracy, I believe on the internet no one knows you're a dog and I believe in judging people based on their code contribution alone. I also have very little interest in letting non-tech interlopers into projects.

Where do I go?

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Re:Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy” by ConceptJunkie on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:50AM (#18167401)

It seems to me that by rejecting the idea that merit is important, these projects will decay and devolve into irrelevance. The problem is that even the Linux kernel itself has been infected with this memetic cancer.

I would suggest it's time to re-read "1984", because real life is rushing towards imitating it, and it's not just the government. Newspeak and doublethink are rapidly infecting many corporations.

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Re:Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy” by basic1 on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:56AM (#18168022)

Linux has a meritocracy of patches not people, Reddit was the great meritocracy, unfortunately Reddit played the game and Linus didn't.

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Re:Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy” by user812 on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:39PM (#18170637)

I would have never thought to see it play out in real life when I read it. It is absolutely frightening.

George Orwell - A Final Warning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm5hklbBsA)

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Re:Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy” by snikeris on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#18167817)

For me, this news brings "Atlas Shrugged" to mind more than "1984".

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