SJWs are killing it, just like everything else they get involved with.

Yup, I think the SJW's are also the Feds, Linux's Tso refused to work with Intel and their backdoor, and by getting SJWs to force a coup, they can infiltrate and insert backdoors this way.

Also SJW'ism is mental cancer

This. If enough code gets pulled, it can miraculously be replaced by savior code. And of course it will happen when Linus isn't around, so he can live his life and not feel bad about what happened.

SJW’s are the bullet, not the gun!

SJWs don't kill people, their policies do!

So ridiculous. People with mental illness running rampant and basically forcing society to enable them is what’s happening.

Goddamn Republicans.

I was speaking more on the ridiculous sjw movement. I don’t get into partisan stuff, both parties are corrupt and shitty period.

So I'm just going to explain what happened since these are the top comments

Basically for a few years the sjw movement was pushing for more social justice policies that would put gender above capability in Linux programming

basically they felt not enough women were in there so they wanted to force women in even if they weren't as qualified as some of the others

Lenox resisted for a while but eventually they caved.

which meant according to these new policies some of the old programmers were responsible for key parts of programming it could be kicked off. And I think a few have been

The problem is that every programmer that puts program into the code has the legal rights to that code. And they can resend the rights at any time.

so if they get kicked off and are pissed they can resend Lennox is right to use their programming which would completely kill the entire thing

It's a copyright issue

and to point out how ridiculous the rules are. There's no sexism in the Linux

everybody can only be identified by the username if they choose. Nobody knows what race gender or nationality anybody is. It's all a hundred percent anonymous. the perfect way to know that no sexism is involved

But the radical left decided they wanted to get sexism involved and put gender above quality. The perfect example of leftism is sexism

Please tell me this is satire..

It's honestly hard to tell with all of the typos. Maybe there's some truth in there, but it's pretty clear the user doesn't have a whole lot of direct experience and is just regurgitating what they've read somewhere. The way they call it "Lenox", "Lennox", "the Linux", and talk about "putting program into the code" sounds like if I asked my computer-illiterate parents to describe how "the cyber" works.

Unfortunately I haven't been following this whole issue as closely as I should be, so I can't really offer a better explanation though. I know there has been a big push to get more women into STEM fields in recent years, but I hadn't heard anything about forcing anyone into "the Linux" specifically or "kicking off" other developers.

Possible, but the rest of the post still makes it sound like someone who is just repeating what they've heard on some anti-SJW website and not what they actually know or have experienced. You ever see that famous CSI clip about creating a GUI interface in Visual Basic? To someone with even a little bit of experience with Linux, it sounds kinda like that.

I wasn't coming at you, I was coming at the other user who is obviously here with an agenda. You and I have our differences, but I have zero issues with your post or any of your comments in this thread. It's the super partisan user a few comments above that I have a problem with. He very obviously has a passionate hatred for the left and is just using this as another topic to bash them on despite not actually knowing anything about it. As you said, you have some experience in Linux so you should be able to see that from his comment. I even said there might be some truth to it (since it looks like he is just repeating what he heard somewhere) but there is no way the user could explain it in their own words.

RESEND LENNOX IS RIGHT!

the sjw was pushing for more social justice policies that would put gender above capability in Linux programming

Can you provide a source on this? I always read that they demanded more representation in the workforce. I never found any credible information (meaning coming from the organization demanding such representation) that they demand that competent workers be removed for women/sjw's.

Saying "radical left" is propoganda? Wat?

Especially coming from ppl who say "radical right"

Saying 'radical left' is not propaganda. It seems like a baseless claim. The CC asked for more representation. The rest is a narrative pushed by this article; of which, no google or duckduckgo search can yield any evidence that the LGBT+ group is actively trying to remove members in the name of "diversity over competence".

Without a proper source this reads like propaganda.

Namely because the Contributor Covenant's new code of conduct cites no demand of "taking down competent workers to make room for women". Instead it's just a code of conduct to stop harrassment, saying that they want

a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

The reason it comes off as propaganda, is because I could not find any source on

Basically for a few years the sjw movement was pushing for more social justice policies that would put gender above capability in Linux programming

Linus has stepped down. He was not removed. He said in a BBC interview that he's taking a break because:

"It's very polarising, and both sides love egging the other side on. It's not even a 'discussion', it's just people shouting at each other.

Instead of finding any source or other information, outside of lulz.com , I found that it just seems to be a bunch of people getting mad that they can't harass others. Blaming "SJW's and the LGBTQ1ANWI".

Goddamn Republicans.

a few years ago it would have been unbelievable that you would be down-voted here for saying that. right or wrong its a valid joke in a political social forum.

we are infested with corporate and political shills.

Becuase only a retard would think Republicans are the ones doing this.

I wouldn't dismiss this is an organised campaign by corporate interests. They have already tried to compromise Linus and other high profile open source developers in the past to be able to black mail them.

Also keep in mind how the NSA views Linux.

Hey fuck you

Fuck the government and fuck the NSA. Flag my dick bitches.

/end 12 hr old rant

What is happening to Linux and across the technology world is an ushering of a restrictive, technocratic era that Zbigniew Brzezinski told us was plan future.

Linux's old founder, Linus, has given control to his daughter. She like Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter are controlled by dark forces trying to shut down meaning creative technologies that people have adopted as a means of every day communications.

The Dark age is coming upon us. One that hates free speech, Science, Truth, healthy society, and the very idea that we the underclass should have rights as individuals. This world is birthing Material Satanism into our societies which tolerates no human compassion or creativity. What they are doing is deceiving us with an ideology of inclusiveness as a tool to erase all our freedoms.

Linus Post Meritocracy code of conduct

Well stated.

I don't think he gave up control yet. I really hope he hands over control to someone else from the community that is picked for their contributions when he does retire. I hope know a bit about her and will pray that she never gets put in changed of the linux community.

there are multiple different kernals for Linux, (different focuses) its not restricted to just Linus.

kernals can fork as well as everything else.

The kernel is literally linux. That is all Linux is: a kernel.

too Windows single app/user like.

wut? If it's too "single user" then just enable ssh or plug in more monitors, keyboards, and mice then.

one misbehaving app crashes or freezes the whole system.

Like every fucking OS since the dawn of time. Jesus you kids are picky.

Yeah but it doesn't have to be like that.

That isn't at all true on Linux. Very few programs are able to access anything that would cause a kernel panic. This isn't like Windows where the god damn internet browser is an essential part of the absolutely monsterous NT kernel that's become such a plate of spaghetti code that MS programmers can't even figure out how to extract it.

Linux's old founder, Linus,

he wrote the kernal, GNU did most of the rest.

and GNU people are hardcore libertarian gun loving cyberpunks both before and after it arose.,

hardcore libertarian gun loving cyberpunks

sounds like my kind of people

Look into sjw cancer that new game Battesomething released with recently.

That my friends is the futurem

Great to see some still have their eyes open. Bless you!

What the fuck did I just read.

Why does the world owe these people their hard work and creativity?

Merit counts. Build your own "diversity" based OS with all of the emotional crutches and self-pity built in.

I'm sure it would be a hit among the narcissistic virtue signalling crowd and the professionally offended.

Why does the world owe these people their hard work and creativity?

Your question reminds me of a theme from the book Atlas Shrugged. If you have not read it you should, it opened my eyes to how many view the world.

Basically, the mere fact that a developer is capable of contributing means they owe it to the rest of society to give their work and creativity. If they don’t, then they are evil for withholding their abilities.

(I don’t agree with that sentiment, just saying how some people view societal obligations)

If the weakest and most shrill are weaponized against the builders and creators of society the Atlas Shrugged scenario might just come to pass, perhaps it already is.

That would be bad.

Today’s war on society is like its taken straight from Ellsworth Toohey‘s playbook in the Fountainhead. His ‘speech’ gives a perfect instruction on how today’s society is being slowly chipped away at.

I couldn’t agree with this enough! Hell even fork the Linux kernel. All the power to you, i’d even switch over if it was a better product!

I’ve been a full time Linux user for 10+ years and I have never once noticed anything remotely non-inclusive about the community or the development circles. This entire controversy completely confuses me.

Try to contribute to the windows or OS X kernel , see how inclusive that will be for you :P

Hopefully these wingnut ideologs don’t go after bsd next! That will be my salvation if Linux goes down in flames of mediocrity.

GNU

RS, is that you?

Because they can't achieve shit by themselves, so being either a snowflake or virtual signaling SJW, through oppression they may find someplace where they can be achievers of something themselves.

And that something is of course power.

Microsoft's monopoly wasnt quite complete enough.

From my studied ignorance of the whole computer scene, I have no trouble thinking that a one-size-fits all conspiracy, virtually unimaginable by the normal herd, is being implemented by our governments and aided and abetted by Microsoft/AppleFacebook/YouTube, all the biggies that virtually control the internet. This is part and parcel of the master plan...and maybe that term should be capitalized as Master Plan as it is all-inclusive to every aspect of human life today and cheerfully and wonderfully brought to you by the multiple efforts of electronics in one form or another.

Join it or fight it, or let the situation resolve itself that is the choices. There is a right answer, but it is a difficult road for a non-involved entity to see to the end.

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I think you're right, this can't all be an accidental. So many people and companies sacrificing the biggest brands to ever exist on the altar of ideology is not accidental, and it's obviously not middle management on a power trip. It's coming from the top, directors and writers don't just get a to dismantle the Star Wars franchise, for instance, without answering to someone who sits at a $50,000 desk. Yet, they double down, and triple down, and intentionally run the paying customers out. Not a mistake.

Disney suddenly doesn't care about money, Linus suddenly doesn't care about merit, Marvel suddenly doesn't care about storytelling, the gaming industry suddenly doesn't care about gaming, etc. Of course I could go on and on, in fact maybe we should crowdsource a comprehensive list, im sure it would paint a pretty alarming picture.

We are deep within the midst of the Great Turning. The only question is- where will we turn?

Sjw's are killing it.

You just helped a redditor in r/ShitRedditSays gain xir’s wings!

Sjws killing it. Just like they are killing comic books

Lol what

The Green Arrow
Now with 100% biodegradable arrows, because you can't save the world while you're polluting it!

Must be a bummer to be so fragile that you feel threatened by diversity. R/conspiracy can do way better than this.

It must be a bummer to feel so excluded due to your poor coding abilities that you do some kind of mental gymnastics to rationalize that it's somehow as a result of your gender or race when the code application process doesn't include anything related to either of those things.

How would you feel if the car you drove had its software written by a team of poorly skilled coders hired only on the basis of their skin colour or gender? What about medical equipment or even something simple as your microwave? Take a moment and think about all the planes flying around, all the trucks on the road, the computers protecting your credit card information, the ATM's at the corner store, the DVR's recording video in every security system, the mind boggles at all the potentials for failure due to poorly written code. Some harmless, others could put hundreds or thousands of lives at risk across the world. Are you willing to accept the sacrifice in quality assurance because hiring on merit and skill has been traded for hiring a colourful staff and feel good policy? Do you even understand the potential ramifications of poorly written software beyond an application crash?

Clearly not. Diversity doesn't mean quality, and implementing mandatory diversity at the expense of quality is something we should be working hard to prevent. I don't care what colour skin someone has, or what they want from their genitals, I care about the quality of their skills and their ability to be civil with others. We should want the best skills and workmanship to come out of our society, not mediocrity.

can do way better than this

There is no such objective thing - you do recognize this, right?

No one here is arguing for less phenotypically or culturally diverse characters, but that the storyline should NEVER be sacrificed in order to shoehorn in some "necessary" social topic

Unless that is what "story" is to you...

To me, this reads as an attempt to undermine open source, not just Linux.

remember that MS acquired github?

I'm glad git is federated.

Github != Git. Github is proprietary while Git is open source.

It’s going to be a death blow to Open Source. Stick fork in Linux. It’s done. Anything not under the control of a corporation with a financial interest in keeping it up to date is going to die on the vine.

This may be the last battlefront in the information war. Should they outlaw open technology, all hope may be lost.

It’s going to be a death blow to Open Source

No it’s not. You’re free to secede (fork) at any point. Tyranny cannot take hold if it cannot enforce a monopoly.

In essence, a new "Code of Conduct" is being forced on the linux community. It is already being weaponized, and many developers want absolutely nothing to do with it.

Greg KH made the patch and Linus Torvals merged it. That's the top two Linux maintainers. I fail to see how they're not part of the linux community. And ~90% of the contributions are made by large cooperations like Microsoft, Intel, Red Hat, etc. They most likely already have such CoCs implemented and seem to have no issue with the CoC.

Btw, how many of those devs you're talking about are actual kernel devs and how many are just random *chaners?

Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”..."threat has teeth." Most of the internet could be affected as some Linux devs threaten to rescind code in response to CoC controversy.

The GPLv2 is considered to be Non-Revocable. I would have prefered a CoC more similar to the KDE or Debian one, which are much more simpler, but Linux is not gonna end because of such a miniscule thing.

I use arch btw.

That's the top two Linux maintainers. I fail to see how they're not part of the linux community

You're insinuating that they are the community. They're the ones doing the forcing, so the question is, who forced them? This is sudden and completely out of character, and people have been trying to blackmail Linus for ages.

Most of the top maintainers where for the CoC. They're the on calling the shots. If you think you can do better without the SJW just fork the kernel and compete with the current maintainers on a technical level.

I believe that option is under consideration.

Do know who is actually considering this? Some competition certainly would be interesting, regardless of the reason.

No, I don't have any inside knowledge or anything, but I've heard more than a few contributors talking publicly about a fork.

IMO going forward with that is premature, bit aans resolution it is the only option I see. I'm not positive this situation can't be resolved, but I'm also pretty sure that a significant number of people won't be hanging around if it isn't. Meritocracy is baked in to the programming mindset, this is trying to mix oil and water with a blowtorch, and I think intentionally. This is a burn it down approach meant to drive 'wrongthinkers' out of the project (and society as a whole), and it's just not going to work out well for Linux.

..even trying to frame him for rape, which is seriously out of TPTB playbook if you ask Dominique Strauss-Kahn..

for the record there's already a backdoor present on every modernish machine which is known as the intel management engine and it operates at machine level.

intel management engine

Israel Inside

You say every not nearly every. What about AMD chips then? These are gaining in popularity in the gaming community.

amd has it's own implementation called "amd secure technology" but that can be disabled with a bios update I believe. It can be disabled on intel computers too but it's not as simple.

https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_firmware_on_sandybridge_and_ivybridge.html

Look into OpenBSD. I've been using it on the desktop for 6 years or so, ever since systemd came along. The guys in charge over there will never allow this to happen.

Most secure operating system!

Yep, they also founded OpenSSH which every Unix-like OS uses (even macOS) along with LibreSSL, a fork of OpenSSL after heartbleed in 2015 (which again, macOS uses).

OpenSSH was first released in 1999.

I didn't understand why would the radical leftists care about linux

They don't care, they are just being used to get Linux backdoored.

But why did they intervene at the first place?

Because the useful idiots were told there was a battle to be fought, and like good dogs they charged off to fight it, completely ignorant of the bigger picture at stake.

they are just being used to get Linux backdoored.

its a consolidation.

This political movement is a literal disease, a plague upon the earth.

All those news articles have like 30 retweets, nobody gives a damn about some belching blue haired bimbo.

This ain't conspiracy and this ain't even news.

It definitely is a conspiracy and it's news to me.

Yes, this is complete bullshit. Read the actual proposed CoC, it can be easily boiled down to: Be nice to other people. The argument about this being used so that people who submit patches who are lgbtq/not white etc being accepted over others is completely untrue, and every person who has stated that has not had any real proof other than quoting the same sources saying the same thing. No proof.

This all started because Linus is burnt out at developing, and has admitted that maybe he has been too hard on people submitting shit patches. Nothing to do with non white cis males. That's all made up bullshit. He's just saying that maybe he shouldnt have been so cruel to people, like when he suggested that someone should have been retroactively aborted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495

Also, to the poster above claiming that he handed the Linux project over to his daughter, that's untrue as well. He said he was taking a brief break, and was going to pass over the reigns to Greg kroah-hartman for the time being. There isn't any further conspiracy. I think PC/SJW culture is stupid as well, but I kinda think people are inventing a conspiracy here....

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He Didn't Fucking Resign.

He explicitly stated that he's taking a brief break, and will be back to help work on future kernels.

Since we're on the conspiracy subreddit, I think that his "brief break" is a forced resignation and he'll never return to Linux. I'd go even further and say that most of that email wasn't written by him: he only sent it.

What?
He has used quotes wrong in several code commits in the past... This is a bizarre comment that you can observe with a simple Google search

Are you part of the open source community it did you just fish this out of some dark hole on the net?

cripling linux in favor of comercial sofware

The question, as so often, is: Cui bono?

Or, who profits from this?

Test

So glad to see /r/conspiracy talking about this!

Not sure if it has come up yet, but does anyone think this infiltration is backed by proprietary software giants that are threatened my Linux? Linux seems to be the leader in so many emerging technologies self driving cars, ai, iot, cloud just to name a few. Has anyone seen any concrete information to back any of this up?

Desktop Linux seems to have been withering due to the explosion of phne/tablet use.

Good write up there OP. Reminds me of the lunacy that had Python abandon slave/master terminology (what's next male/female sockets?)

This is much worse sadly, and shows the dangerous they impose to the world.

" feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities"

I'm now convinced that this whole movement is a part of a larger scheme. Every notice these people unite with one another quite easily yet are quick to shun/slander anything that opposes or disagrees with it?

It's now gotten to a point where you'll be fired, laid off, ridiculed, dox'd, just for going against " feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities". Reddit is a shit show example of this with the whole quarantined bullshit going on.

what the fuck.... when did I twilight zone here?

what does the "QIA+" part mean?

fucked if i know...

I just copy and pasted that shit from some random sub reddit.

Lesbian gay bisexual trans queer intersex asexual + will probably soon include bestiality/pedo within the next few years I reckon.

Feminism started when women had no voting or property rights.

Now a century or two later that they have equal and more rights than men. They are going for any straw that they can grab.

Its like a mob setting fire to shit that it had issue with and they go along and burn the entire city.

The same will shortly be repeated by the sub's being banned.

First it was just cp, now its right/anything they don't like.

After that idk who they come for.

Queer, intersexed, asexual. There used to be more but I think a lot of them were 4chan jokes that went over their heads.

I believe it's an effort to compromise Linux and get rid of those resisting the efforts of the likes of the NSA and Intel to backdoor themselves into the code and the OS. The current gatekeepers of the OS have been resisting the efforts to make linux into a bloated Microsoft Windows Spyware/OS.

They have yet to present any evidence that their solid, high-quality coding has been rejected because of their skin color, political leanings, sexual identification as far as I can tell. Where are the convincing anecdotes? Where is their proof.

I am a pretty progressive, socially aware, left leaning person and even I can't get on board with this kind of stupid bullshit.

They already have backdoors in most CPUs at a hardware level so introducing soft backdoors is just redundant.

Security-aware people typically avoid newer hardware, a lot of hardcore computer nerds use old thinkpads or even use some sort of specialized hardware. Of course there are ways to remove the backdoors on modern Intel chips.

Can't have some rando os gain marketshare when you have a trillion dollar budget.

The technical/creative 'center-of-gravity' is going to shift clear out of the "Western" Hemisphere if this insanity prevails.

These mentally-ill bullies are approaching jihadi-muslim levels of religious* bigotry, and if western society continues to 'celebrate' it, it's doomed.

*religious:
1. Revealed 'truth'
2. A Catechism (the Narrative)
3. 'Sins'
4. Heretics aren't just wrong; they're evil, or even non-human.

The Donald is leaking like a old septic system...

This manufactured situation would force linux users into more locked down operating systems, with crappier software, less power and more privacy invasion. The death of linux would not surprise me at all. The latest computers from the stores have been much harder to install linux on lately, and this could be foreshadowing. I have also heard that popular internet sites are being dumbed down for viewing on cell phones anyway, and this could be part of that trend to lead people away from deep research on the internet and more towards top down entertainment broadcasting, like television.

It’s all being dumbed down it seems, with the end user getting more and more removed from actual control of their devices and software, and from actual information about their world. I’ve started noticing it everywhere, very unsettling.

Bow to feminism or you will be destroyed

Since you came to conspiracy, I'll share one. NWO is ramping up discord between as many groups as possible, so you're ultimately lost with no religion or confidence in government that we give into some very public one world religion and government.

Frankly, I've no idea what's going on.

The calling out of specific people and what they've done in the past pain a dire picture, though.

Think one of the 'rape apologist' accusation was made against a guy that refused to implement closed source hardware reliant function calls in his code, effectively denying Intel backdoor access to Linux through at least that specific method. Hilariously enough the public naming and shaming violated the very CoC they're so heavily pushing.

Whatever happens to Linux caution it advised and should the Kernel indeed fork close attention should be paid when deciding which route the individual should go for.

I'm not the most avid of Linux users and only recently 'switched' (still dual booting) as SteamPlay came around. So I'm fairly fresh as a private user but as a Software Dev I'm well aware of Linux's position in the commercial/business world.

Ultimately I've no idea where this is coming from and I've my doubts any SJWs would have the necessary skill set to seriously contribute to an OS kernel, let alone write any type of acceptable code. Plus, in all my Software Developing career not anyone has ever cared about a person's color, gender, sex - whatever - but the code quality delivered.

Typically Software Developers, youngsters and young prodigies aside, are likely smart enough to boil things down to substance that actually matters. None of these points contain anything SJW could possible cry foul about, in my experience anyway.

In terms of conspiracy I don't believe too much in coincidence and the fronts SJWs become active in keep on increasing. I'd not be surprised if this was controlled attacks under the guise of SJW agendas.

Generally I'd not expect most of their shit to fly with 'nerds' but here we are and I've evidently been wrong. Maybe the infiltration of gaming media was the first step to get everyone accustomed to SJW crap in the technical sphere of things.

CIA is running the SJW movement, just like they ran the hippies and other counterculture agitators in the 60's

Operating systems are powerful. The post 911 inquisition doesn't like having to learn the ins and outs and consider thinking people as dangerous. In order to clamp the cuffs on Linux they need access to install their watchers and bots. They resent that people can write programs to secure privacy, and God forbid, hide from the G-man, even create private networks. Mark my words, they'll get their kill switch for Linux and Bitcoin as well.

Outstanding write up and well documented.

code doesn't care who wrote it, lol

Linus Torvalds made his 4 year old daughter sign the "Post-Meritocracy Manifesto". Making his child who lacks the mental capacity to even read, let alone understand the document, sign her name in order to support his agenda is totally fucked up.

LGBTQIA+

What? What does this even mean? In ,two years it will include every letter of the alphabet

Linus Torvald Compares Those Objecting to The CoC as White Nationalist Nazi's

i"Because I may have my reservations about excessive political correctness, but honestly, I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi, and have some truly nasty misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic behaviour. And those people were complaining about too much political correctness too, and in the process just making my public stance look bad. https://archive.is/NNDi4#selection-1507.0-1507.449

There is a direct attack on open source for at least 10 years now, Linux is just collateral damage... they are rushing and doing absolutely everything to create dystopian world before its too late.

People gonna start dying if SWJ keeps messing with major shit like this. I ain't one to kill but there definitely dudes out there that'll get fed up with all this utter bullshit to that extent

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Fork and ignore. wtf is the problem?

This guy forks.

I don't think this is a conspiracy and I think you've exaggerated what's really happening and why. It stems from some language used by Linux Torvalds which has been called potentially offensive. He sometimes uses expletives or insults in emails. Offensive or not, that language isn't needed in a professional setting when you're talking about highly technical things. In essence, people would rather have Linus get to the point and leave out everything without substance. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. We have these very same code of conducts in schools and workplaces. They're harmless. Social media is less strict about what you can say and video games even less so. But an emailing list about making an operating system which is used all across the world isn't about expressing whatever you want like on Reddit: it's about a very specific, serious topic and it should be limited to that topic and not devolve into insults. It has rules for what you can say just like individual subreddits.

I spent about 30 minutes reading OPs post, the main article linked, and after reading your post, realized I had not even read the CoC itself...

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct

Then I looked for analysis by the community itself (https://nr.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9gpx5k/explain_to_me_why_this_new_coc_is_bad_caveat_be/)[https://nr.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9gpx5k/explain_to_me_why_this_new_coc_is_bad_caveat_be/]

Divergence from meritocracy seems like a disaster for software development, but I don't see where it really kills this concept in the CoC.

It says: "pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of" ... "level of experience"

However perhaps it is a jump to assume that "level of experience" means quality of code.

Accepting lower quality of contributions is totally unacceptable, but I don't see that explicitly stated in the CoC. So I am thinking perhaps it is a "slippery slope" kind of thing which is causing the furor.

Thanks. That's very helpful and I should have looked for this stuff before.

I have a feeling that weev is behind this.

Fork it

https://imgur.com/TV8VScL

What in the fuck???

I have never seen something like this on Git before

Since I was curious, After more research I believe that is a troll post, it's just too over the top, no post history, user joined Git the same day, and the timing aligns with other events mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079209

Its a pretty good troll though

https://meinwords.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/why-linus-left/

If the threat is put into action, ramifications could include large parts of the internet being left vulnerable to exploits, and companies around the world might even inherit bundles of unwanted legal liabilities.

Want to close off the nets so people can't communicate without oversight from nefarious and malicious monitors, with no ability to confidently send encrypted information: Here ya go!

How many potentially compromised closed source blobs are you running right now? List of free distros: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

I believe that option is under consideration.

The kernel is literally linux. That is all Linux is: a kernel.

too Windows single app/user like.

wut? If it's too "single user" then just enable ssh or plug in more monitors, keyboards, and mice then.

one misbehaving app crashes or freezes the whole system.

Like every fucking OS since the dawn of time. Jesus you kids are picky.

I wasn't coming at you, I was coming at the other user who is obviously here with an agenda. You and I have our differences, but I have zero issues with your post or any of your comments in this thread. It's the super partisan user a few comments above that I have a problem with. He very obviously has a passionate hatred for the left and is just using this as another topic to bash them on despite not actually knowing anything about it. As you said, you have some experience in Linux so you should be able to see that from his comment. I even said there might be some truth to it (since it looks like he is just repeating what he heard somewhere) but there is no way the user could explain it in their own words.