Lunduke and Ben Cotton Having Disputes Over Politics in FOSS
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The Only Tech News Outlet Covering the Woke Tech Activists [Ed: No, Lunduke is provoking people, usually needlessly, then moans about the backlash he gets]
Red Hat, Microsoft, NixOS, Mozilla... The Lunduke Journal stands alone in covering their discriminatory, Woke, DEI policies. Why do the other major Tech News publications ignore these stories?
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Your project is political, people’s identities aren’t [Ed: Ben Cotton lends legitimacy to the idea some people are "plurals" and to object to this is somehow a political statement rather than response to political interjections]
Every so often, I run across a project that claims to be all about the code. “No politics!” they say. Whether they mean it or not, the message is often received as “this isn’t a space for you”. Any identity that is not the same as the project’s leadership (typically: cisgender white man) is treated as political. This is ridiculous. A person’s political views may form part of their identity, but their identity is not political.
The SerenityOS found itself in the middle of this conversation recently after a pull request to make documentation more inclusive was closed by the project for violating the “no controversial topics” rule. (The changes were later accepted in a subsequent pull request.) But as the author pointed out: “The change I proposed is specifically as to not alienate people who aren’t men”.