"just do the fucking work nothing else matters"

Is the CoC like a terms of Service or something?

it's a Covenant of Conduct

So, why is it important?

why is it important to me, or them?

The Code of Conduct is a list of terms that all contributors and community members as well as representatives of project X must obey.

The exact details are specified on Coraline Ada Ehmke's website, including the scope of the document. https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct

So, its like a typical ToS, but on multiple platforms?

@M4Gunner both I guess

It's essentially a document telling a fairly large group of people how to behave, and this particular Code of Conduct (The Contributor Covenant) is essentially saying "Listen here, white boy, shut up or die"

It's (supposedly) used in 40,000 open-source projects, and was even adopted by Google, Microsoft and, of course, Linux.

And the problem is that tons of people are adopting this?

Yes, because they're being forced to, either by internal or external pressure.

The whole point is that it's a political document to remove meritocracy and replace it with "Your code contribution quality is measured by how much of a minority group you are"

People are adding the CoC as a commit to other people's repositories and then bullying them when they do not accept it

DO NOT PANIC CITIZENS. EVERYTHING IS NORMAL. <:thisisfine:378719407981199363>
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-and-linux-code-of-conduct-myths/

insert [i don't believe you meme] here

Im tired of these people placing stuff in the code that are turning the frikin kernels gay! <:alex_jones:453626940021276672>

dont consider this article to contain legal expertise
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-if-you-try-to-take-your-code-out-of-linux/

thery are calling Unconditionalwitness a mere troll

i swear to god the people who run ZDNet are the same 112 year old paedophiles who know nothing about technology that run the fucking EU

im not up to date on zdnet drama

even the FSF lawyer's legal opinion is just that--they can't say how this would fare in the courtroom. Theyre also not without bias.

Friggin Boomers REEEEEEEEEE!

<:what:382980756139409409>

boomers are okay as long as they happen to have spent a good majority of their lives doing really low-level programming

because then they're logical, sensible and rational boomers

@Nordhand

https://coub.com/view/x8vr3

Now theyre plotting to sneak GPL3-esque provisions into GPL2 software.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/big-four-linux-tech-firms-shift-open-source-licensing-policies/

This of course undermines evereything Linus has done to undermine the FSF. <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554>

and there you have the real reason for the linux drama

well it would never happen with Linus there

thats for sure

``Meeker concluded, "The revocability idea was advanced back in the 1990s as a FUD technique to scare people away from using open-source software. It's no more true today than it was back then."``
Or maybe businesses were vocally skeptical about using it because this could totally happen <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

trill af

man, I am so totally fucking tired of the stories of SJWs taking entire projects over, over and over again

it's clear that the left is an organized, dedicated and terrifying group and that every single time they do something ***they win***

maybe they don't gain so much in the long run, but the problem is that ***we lose***