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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by specialist on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:31PM (#21492805)
The problem is poor governance.

Everyone has the right to appeal, sue for injury, etc.

Any entity acting as judge, jury, and executioner is the problem. Secret laws, secret courts, secret rulings are the problem.

Suboptimal CoC's are not (even remotely) the problem. Broken laws, policies, rules, procedures can be fixed. If we have proper governance.

We know this.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Fellshard on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:26PM (#21499979)
The two are tightly coupled. An intentionally vague CoC permits gaps throughout the governance system.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by specialist on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:00PM (#21501543)
If CoC's were specific, they'd be called laws, rules, procedures.

CoC's like the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence exist to capture values, principles, culture, intent.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Fellshard on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:43PM (#21501721)
You're not exactly helping the case that this whole 'governance' is flimsy, a facade over arbitrary application of power.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by specialist on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:01PM (#21501785)
What?

Which side are you on?

Pick a side.

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