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Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

Posted Jan 21, 2016 20:37 UTC (Thu) by brine (guest, #106482)
In reply to: Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation by corbet
Parent article: Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

Your choice to censure this comment while saying nothing about the abusive and hateful OP comment is condoning and enabling such actions. It seems the LWN is aligning itself with I small insular group who want to exclude and disenfranchise the majority of Men and Women who believe there hard work and ability should be the determining factor in advancement. Not the whim of a self appointed in-group of Ideological demagogues who want to impose arbitrary ratios based on sexual orientation, gender and race in what ever percentages titillates there current definition of 'equality'.

For this group if they can not subvert FLOSS into an ideological tool and plunder its resources then they will gladly try to destroy it. The attempts to 'rage-wave' bad publicity for certain FLOSS people and organizations like this current story about the Linux Foundation project are a clear sign of this strategy. If LWN is protecting these comments and giving them a platform then LWN is aligned with and enabling this effort.

You need to think about this. Is this the dark destructive road LWN wants to go down?


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Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

Posted Jan 22, 2016 10:42 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

If only it wasn't a zero-sum game; say, if there was a way to increase participation from groups who are either collectively not good enough to pass merit-based tests, or in fact not being judged on their merits, but without decreasing participation from other groups. Some kind of strictly additive scheme which is solely based around growing the pool of open source developers for everyone's collective benefit. If only ...


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