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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by chrisseaton on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:16PM (#25597221)
Did you just guess at what it's about out of thin air with absolutely no context of your own?

Because it's very clearly not about GitHub and branch names - it's the ongoing thing with Pedro Domingos.

If you don't know, best to not just guess especially when it's a contentious subject where people are already clearly super frought. That's probably why you got down-voted heavily.

Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by hannob on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:08PM (#25597151)
So you think github renaming its default branch restricts their freedom of speech? I'm confused...
Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by africanboy on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#25597389)
IMO it doesn't.

But if it becomes the default for the 56 million GitHub developers, is it really freedom of speech?

I don't disagree with renaming the default branch and I've been using the name develop as the default branch for 2 years now, but I am still not sure that changing it globally on a global platform qualifies as "good behaviour".

Edit:

If you disagree, can you please write a comment stating why you do?

It would be very helpful, if I am saying something obviously wrong I would love to understand why.

Thanks!

Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by pc86 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:24PM (#25597316)
This is the only comment of yours I see in this thread.
Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by MattGaiser on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:34PM (#25597414)
The comment was edited. It was originally about Github renaming master to main.