Editorial Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming

[Valantar]

A market versus open source software. Unregulated markets lead to events like Black Tuesday--the equivalent of an economic weapon of mass destruction. Open source software...who does it hurt when it goes terribly wrong? It gets forked and people move on.

But why is it wrong for the organization in charge of development of said open-source software to implement rules and regulations that apply (only) to itself and its contributors? I'd say that's just as relevant and logical for them as it is for any other organization responsible for carrying out complex work with many moving parts.

 

[moproblems99]

who does it hurt when it goes terribly wrong? It gets forked and people move on.

I thought that is why there are 27 pages in this thread?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

But why is it wrong for the organization in charge of development of said open-source software to implement rules and regulations that apply (only) to itself and its contributors? I'd say that's just as relevant and logical for them as it is for any other organization responsible for carrying out complex work with many moving parts.

"Regulation" is a function of government. Linux Foundation can establish and enforce its own rules within the confines of the law of the jurisdiction in operates from. I never said Linux Foundation couldn't implement and enforce these rules; I said the rules, and how they were adopted, are flawed. I also pointed out a general unwillingness of Linux Foundation to enforce rules.

I thought that is why there are 27 pages in this thread?

Completely different scales. When economies collapse, you get situations like unfolded in Zimbebwe and now Venezula, and soon Turkey. People can't get the bare essentials and start fleeing the market as a function of survival.

As for Linux Foundation and damages ("hurt"), McHardy already did under the old Code of Conflict. A lot more people have grounds against the Code of Conduct than they did against the Code of Conflict but, that's for plaintiffs to decide in a court of law.

 

[RichF]

The thing that everyone likes to conveniently forget when they write stuff like the OP is that warfare doesn't happen without at least two parties fighting each other.

Somehow, miraculously, it's not social justice warfare (conducted by social justice warriors) when it's action from the point of view of the side that agrees with that point of view! No. It's authentic correction. It's not even politics!

It's pure magic.

Personally, I think this issue is a distraction from Linux succumbing to the same problem that Windows and macOS have: capture by spies. Let's give them a nice and juicy paranoia social issues wedge steak to divide and conquer. Pay no attention to the spies behind the curtain...

I'm a lot less interested in Torvalds' ability to post profanity than I am in how he, by virtue of his US citizenship, is under the thumb of secret courts. The UK is worse, too.