Andrew Gallants blog says he's a systems engineer at Salesforce (and makes clear the distinct possibility that he himself is what we'd calla chud), but it's unclear if this Amazon stuff is what's up. Would love to see the core team provide specific reasoning about why their mod team would do this. I distrust at least that the mod team really needed to not explain why they actually left. They should have at least tried to explain the basic impetus for their resignation instead of just saying that the core team is bad.
Amazon is supposedly trying to reduce the reputation of the core team so that they can gain membership on it and have some real effect on the direction of the language.
Obviously this sounds bad, but what's in it for Amazon? Seems like any un-FOSSing amazon could do would be walked around and ignored, but also heavily protested, by the existing huge and established Rust community.
I am wondering if this is related to the struggle in the past involving the core team and Amazon (see this thread; note that Steve is a member of the core team).
Can someone give a rundown on the situation here? What's the deal with the Core Team?
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FOSS has a lot of libertarian roots
Yeah, this is what happens when you work with Amazon and expect them to act in good faith.
OSS, this ain't foss
So to clarify, the moderation team is working for Amazon? Or they've just fallen for Amazon machinations?
Andrew Gallants blog says he's a systems engineer at Salesforce (and makes clear the distinct possibility that he himself is what we'd calla chud), but it's unclear if this Amazon stuff is what's up. Would love to see the core team provide specific reasoning about why their mod team would do this. I distrust at least that the mod team really needed to not explain why they actually left. They should have at least tried to explain the basic impetus for their resignation instead of just saying that the core team is bad.
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Probably the last one, but I don’t have time to go digging in their LinkedIns.
Obviously this sounds bad, but what's in it for Amazon? Seems like any un-FOSSing amazon could do would be walked around and ignored, but also heavily protested, by the existing huge and established Rust community.
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I am wondering if this is related to the struggle in the past involving the core team and Amazon (see this thread; note that Steve is a member of the core team).
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