A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 9, 2018 0:40 UTC (Fri) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155)
Parent article: A "joke" in the glibc manual

At this pace, and based strictly on what most "codes of conduct" require from contributors' behaviors *in their private lives*, pretty soon there will be few open source or free software projects that will take your patches, if you've ever dared post a zany joke on Twitter or your blog.

With that, your chances to use your OSS/FS work as leverage into the software industry are dead. Unless, of course, you become, in every aspect of your life, an unfunny automaton who cheers for conventional wisdom and caves to sentimentality, and never says what it's actually on his mind.

Do not forget, freethinker, that they want you broke, mum or dead to others, your contributions stillborn or defaced, and they think it's funny.

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 9, 2018 1:08 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

> At this pace, and based strictly on what most "codes of conduct" require from contributors' behaviors *in their private lives*, pretty soon there will be few open source or free software projects that will take your patches, if you've ever dared post a zany joke on Twitter or your blog.
Care to post an example?

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 12, 2018 11:37 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (2 responses)

Remember this? https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 12, 2018 12:30 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

I don’t see him being a pariah for life. There’s also a way to, you know, apologize for bad tweets rather than just confirming that you’re a bigot.

A "joke" in the glibc manual

Posted Nov 13, 2018 13:14 UTC (Tue) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Do you have to apologise to everyone that disagrees with you? See, that's the problem we were talking about.