r/linux - Richard Stallman announcing his return to the FSF's Board of Directors
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Thought some of you might wanna engage in the conversation :) A libreddit link for privacy.

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Because there's two wolves inside the Linux community:

      One wolf knows programming open source is programming communism

      The other wolf is a Elon Musk wholesome 100 bitcoin techbro

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      4 years ago

      I don't know but it's disheartening to me too. Like the time they went crazy when the Kernel added a code of conduct for maintainers and that shithead abusive Linus finally had to take a break because of his repeated abuse of other contributors. The code of conduct in question is basically "be a decent human being" but apparently that was too much to ask for and many contributors actually threatened to remove their code.

      • culdrought [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I remember that too. The r/linux threads at the time were filled with reactionary shitheads who probably have never contributed a single line of code, whining about how the SJWs are ruining Linux.

        • garbology [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          There were even bizarre conspiracy theories that his daughter had brainwashed him, or that businesses interests had asked him to go woke. Clawing for some explanation, anything, so they could package this as part of The Great Culture War.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The software field is disproportionately white, male, and wealthy.