Transgender contributors to open source existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die.

Just to be clear.

But not with unlimited power to ban people for wrongthink.

When you make as many valuable contributions to the open source graphics stack as Lyude has, you might hold a position of significant authority within FDO or a similar project also.

Unless Lyude decides you need to be banned for something that happened in a different place multiple years ago, in which case your valuable contributions mean nothing and you're no longer allowed to contribute.

If you wish to study physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the dean finds out that you have a history of painting swastikas on buildings and decides to ban your ass from campus, it's not exactly an arbitrary or capricious decision.

Why would they ban a jew from jewish school?

Normal people don't think software projects should be like religious organizations or political clubs because making them such does nothing but harm the software.

Because they had a history of painting swastikas on buildings. Did you read the comment you replied to?

Right but that's only done by jews (see: "Hey Rabbi... Whatcha doin?"), which obviously the jews running the school would be aware of

The ban was for something that had just happened, which was the poor response to emails and the inflammatory blog post.

People keep trying to frame it like the ban was strictly for past actions from years ago, which I find disingenuous at worst and gullible at best.

IMO, the rude and unprompted initial email was "inflammatory." It was responded to in kind, which the sender did not take well.

If you're that upset about someone publishing a supposedly formal email that you sent, perhaps you should consider why that is instead of just knee-jerk banning the person to protect yourself.

> which was the poor response to emails

The email said it wasn't up for discussion.

Well gosh, why are you trying to discuss it now? Seems like a waste of time to me.

So, skipping the debate straight to death threats? Thank you for demonstration.

If you consider that a death threat, I am concerned for your mental health and/or reading comprehension skills.

Have a nice day, neonsunset.

Not the trans telling other people about their mental health lmaoooooooo

Will they? Transgender people cannot reproduce and tend to 41% fairly quickly. I bet the problem will solve itself within a decade at most.

It'll die before then, they're already putting him in a cage for not coddling people's feelings.

Already such flimsy material reasons to use or contribute to FOSS instead of using often better proprietary software. When you're endorsing the philosophy of reddit mod types by using FOSS and will get banned from contributing for being sane the negatives start to outweigh the positives