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Re:O'Reilly to adopt anti-harrassment Code of Conduct for Oscon by dfxm12 on Monday July 25, 2011 @08:45AM (#2802358)
I get your point, and I understand why this happened, but before recent events, O'Reilly's viewpoint was probably: Why would O'Reilly think it needs to have policies outlawing unprofessional and possibly illegal behavior in a professional conference?
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Re:O'Reilly to adopt anti-harrassment Code of Conduct for Oscon by jimwise on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:49AM (#2802572)
Yes -- one could argue this opens the door for other bad behavior at OSCon, since it's not on the (new) list of things not to do.

That's the problem with putting these things in writing -- the more rules you write down, the stronger the impression that whatever's not on the list isn't against the rules.

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Re:O'Reilly to adopt anti-harrassment Code of Conduct for Oscon by pyre on Monday July 25, 2011 @04:30PM (#2804477) 

  > one could argue this opens the door for other bad
  > behavior at OSCon
It's already been happening though. It's not like leaving it out of writing preventing incidents from happening.
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