Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes

As my final point, I would like to wish you that some day you will understand that KS decision to start consider non-merit factors in open source was a *very* bad thing, which will have profound negative consequences in the future.

You made that point already with your absurd "true programming" label. And as I noted, the things that you don't consider to have "merit" have been regarded as essential aspects of any complete software project for quite some time.

Many projects would benefit from a larger contributor base where the "true programmers" contribute a lower proportion of the total resulting work. One might have to reach beyond the normal "true programmers" demographic to achieve this. And there we have the basis of an idea for something: have you worked out what that might be?

(I actually wonder how "true programmers" would get a degree or other higher education qualification. In some education systems, one doesn't need to write any kind of thesis at bachelor degree level, which is why some employers insist on a masters degree. Or maybe their supervisor had to really drag such people away from "true programming" and push them hard to write something up.)