After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)
Posted Sep 21, 2018 1:32 UTC (Fri) by cert_meter (guest, #127372)In reply to: After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker) by yuuyuu
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And the FUD towards Linus is starting as well: https://twitter.com/vaurorapub/status/1042852203264798720
The attack on Ted is what I am looking closely, however. "Linux CoC Enforcer is a Rape Apologist" makes great click-baity headlines. And once the narrative and outrage is built, it is unlikely his employer will support him. Then they pressure an apology out of him, and eventually get his head.
That's what we get for hastily adopting a code of conduct written by people who are the ideological opposite of what the Linux community is (that whole merit vs. identity thing).
I'm sure the people who Signed-off this patch did it with the best intent, but it will come and bite them where they are the most vulnerable. Because that's how these sickos work. Remember Tim Hunt, Brendan Eich, and so many others.