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Debian's diversity statement

Posted Apr 12, 2012 5:35 UTC (Thu) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Debian's diversity statement by roskegg
Parent article: Debian's diversity statement

Wait a minute. For that to work as you seem to imply, these folks would have to be seriously afraid of their tuition being withdrawn by .se/.de/whatnot government for contributing to a project that happens to have you as a contributor. Are you serious? And no, "we owe the government for free tuition, so we'll do whatever it takes to keep it happy" doesn't cut it - the sense of entitlement takes care of that one nicely, negating any kind of "we owe..." sentiments.

Sheesh... I've seen professional victims, but this goes beyond all but a very few of them...

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Posted Apr 12, 2012 9:51 UTC (Thu) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link]

Deny it all you like, I heard such fears expressed in person at Debconf, and earlier on the Debian communication channels.

Debian's diversity statement

Posted Apr 14, 2012 8:03 UTC (Sat) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link]

I've also heard that you might be a necrophiliac cannibal. Deny it all you like. I've heard it in many reputable channels.

Debian's diversity statement

Posted Apr 13, 2012 13:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's better than that. He said government *or* corporate. So if you're working on Debian while employed by anybody, or a student, or faculty, or employed by any state in any capacity whatsoever, or unemployed and on benefits, or as far as I can tell anything other than living off inherited wealth while explicitly declining all government benefits, you are yourself a sign of Debian's innate decay.

(I don't entirely understand how Debian differs in this respect from RH, or Ubuntu, or Windows, or indeed almost any other human endeavour ever. I suppose if you work on Debian while working for a cartoon supervillain you might be safe, since they rarely bother to set up corporations.)