Bless you Linux

--Just make sure you bark and not.. bite.

Linus did nothing wrong

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what the hell does writing code have to do with politics...

current year

People may not have an interest in politics

But politics has an interest in people.

It's unfortunate when you have to address something JUST because it won't leave you alone.

Linux is doing something about it.

GamerGate was a wake up call that you can't escape politics

It'll come to you sooner or later

Hey guise

wanna start a new linux upstream?

looks like the current one won't be long for this world.

I volunteer to be your email whore and merge your patches if I don't think they're the wrong ones.

I googled "foss sjw" and got a bunch of articles from like 2015, they tried to warn us

And say the occasional mean or dismissive thing when I feel you've overstepped a boundary or wasted my time.

i am so not good enough a coder for that

I tried to warn you too

every time this issue came up on HN or Phoronix or a mailing list I laid out my strongest argument

usually ended with "LOL YOU JUST WANT TO EYE RAPE THE HYPOTHETICAL WOMEN WHO MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY JOIN OUR COMMUNITY IF WE WERE MORE WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE IN SOME VAGUE AND NEBULOUS WAY"

It's just dumb. They could be eating children's brains in their spare time, that doesn't effect whether their code is useful or not.

code has no gender

half the time I can barely tell what country an email comes from on a mailing list

I don't think I would recognize the faces of more than three contributors to projects I follow closely or contribute to.

Why do people want to restrict who can work for free?

Even if I were a raging sexist, racist, homophobe from the hottest sweatiest pits of the Mars Boys Club

I wouldn't know who to mistreat.

There must be profit in being a douche.

these people see cis-white males everywhere because they believe cis-white males are the superior group

Well, the piece Tim based his recent video on points to a plausible explanation

I know that the org chart of feminist infiltrators in Node (which managed to very nearly ruin everything with a CoC there a few months ago) is pretty suspicious too.

If someone wants to do free labor constantly patching up my operating system in response to 0-day security threats why should I care that they're a white male?

i mean, why else would meritocracy in an anonymous community mean only cis-white males end up on top? its because they believe, they themselves believe, that straight white males are the best in this area

Corporate soft coup seems like a plausible way it ends up this way.

they are the racists, and they project onto everyone else because they have been told since childhood racists are bad

they hate themselves and blame everyone else

White male Wikipedia editors is funny too, that's mostly free labor as well.

I run Linux every day for work and for play, and if the best contributors were pedophiles... no, child rapists, I'd want them contributing (if only from jail).