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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by goatinaboat on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:42PM (#21487138)
It’s easy to laugh at the sheer stupidity of that tweet. But imagine you wanted to use Domain Driven Design (or the Data Display Debugger, or the dd utility, or the D language) at an organisation that employs this person... and you get fired for it.

But all of this is on all their permanent records and when the pendulum swings the other way, they will have ample time to reflect.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by wang_li on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:36PM (#21489396)
Someday this type of thing is going to have a very clear connection to loss of a job or contract and someone is going to learn the term tortious interference. Then find themselves writing a bigger check than they thought they would be when they woke up that day. Paired with a groveling public apology.
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by sampo on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:34AM (#21490381)
Here is a Reddit story about some non-native English speaker getting fired in California over a variable name:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/dpcfns/i...

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by concordDance on Saturday November 09, 2019 @04:46AM (#21490576)
A large proportion of the more interesting and shareable stories are creative writing exercises. This is almost certainly one.