Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:58:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >PPS: It's not my intention to offend geek feminism, it just reminds me >of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R. , basically good ideas >compromised by ideology. Tricky link :D "People H.R. (born 1956), lead singer of American band Bad Bra

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
PPS: It's not my intention to offend geek feminism, it just reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R. , basically good ideas compromised by ideology. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Btw. for each example when political correctness was offended regarding feminism and/or racism and/or any gender related issue appeared on a BSD or Linux related mailing list, I will provide trillions of examples when Godwin's law, bikeshedding and swearing was an issue, not to mention top posting

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Most of this CoC https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html is overdoing problems, let alone that the reporting instructions are a bit overdone or unnecessary. "simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "*hug*"" "If you believe anyone is in physical danger, please not

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 3 March 2018 at 23:11, M. wrote: > This is some joke ? > Actually, if you read the messages in the linked mbox, it's quite hilarious, but only in that the strong proponents of the CoC (pun intended, right?! :-)) ) fall foul of the CoC within a few messages of their replies... Literally, can'

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread M.
This is some joke ? 2018-03-03 23:32 GMT+01:00 John Darrah via freebsd-chat < freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>: > FreeBSD recently introduced an updated Code of Conduct that developers and > members must adhere to. There has been much backlash online about it and > about introducing identity politics in

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread Carlos Gottberg
What the fsck have I just read? On Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 7:33 PM John Darrah via freebsd-chat < freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> wrote: > FreeBSD recently introduced an updated Code of Conduct that developers and > members must adhere to. There has been much backlash online about it and > about introducing

FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread John Darrah via freebsd-chat
FreeBSD recently introduced an updated Code of Conduct that developers and members must adhere to. There has been much backlash online about it and about introducing identity politics into a technical OS project in general. The Code of Conduct was adopted from the "Geek Feminism" wiki's version, wh