Joint Statement on the GNU Project

Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by simion314 on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:57PM (#21183927)

It depends though, I agree that it sucks to work daily with a jerk but as we see today people get outraged by pronouns, things you maybe said in the past, your private opinion on sexuality, your private opinion on politics.

It would be a pathetic excuse to fire Linus because 25 years ago insulted some BSD guys in an email or some other developer in a different email, the internet was different then and there was no COC to force people to use a specific language.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by shadowgovt on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:01PM (#21183988)

Mostly because we have enough evidence now to know how those private opinions aggregate to real damage to the people they're arrayed against, systemically.

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Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project by jcoffland on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:41PM (#21184455)

Let's judge people on what they have done not on what they might do.

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