The FOSS community is about hobbyist recreational programming for FUN.
If you want to kill the FUN you introduce COCs, you guilt trip people of a certain gender and race (white male) for simply existing and you create artificial drama via divide and conquer like the current Stallman campagn. Congratulations, mission accomplished, the fun has been eradicated.
Inviting the corporate world into FOSS was a grave mistake. The FOSS community should generally exclude everybody who is not fun. Inclusiveness has proven itself to be counterproductive.
Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project
by dragonwriter on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:49PM
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> The FOSS community is about hobbyist recreational programming for FUN.
No, it was never exclusively about that, and it's become less dominantly about that over time.
> Inviting the corporate world into FOSS was a grave mistake.
The nature of “free” and “open source” is you don't get to choose who to invite.
Re:Joint Statement on the GNU Project
by t0astbread on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:59PM
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I can see why you'd think these sort of modernization measures are about guilt tripping white men but that's (hopefully) not what people actually want. The only ones that should really feel guilty are those that categorically and intentionally exclude or mistreat others.
Maybe those corporations do a better job at providing an inclusive environment than the free software community? And those people are interested in bringing the same to the FS world. (Whether or not it was necessary to push Stallman out for that, I'm not sure.)