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, which claims (among other things) that racism against whites doesn't exist, sexism against men doesn't exist, and that certain protected classes of people should not be criticised.
Emails of the internal discussion about this controversial Code of Conduct have now been leaked publicly, painting a picture of the disagreement in the FreeBSD project about how this was handled. A number of developers, particularly benno@, phk@ and des@, have used racist and sexist remarks against those criticising the far-reaching project policy change, saying that the concerns about the policy essentially boil down to "white male privilege" and being "on the wrong side of history". Other developers expressed concern about the policy being thrown upon them with no discussion or debate, as well as The FreeBSD Foundation's choice to pay an outside person (with donations from the users) to work on the Code of Conduct's enforcement. Said person identifies as a feminist. Mods on BSD and FreeBSD-related subreddits are censoring posts, removing threads, and banning users for posting the link. Colin Percival is among the mods doing the removal. FreeBSD forum mods are also cracking down and eliminating any discussion. Censorship is not the way to win culture wars. This file is an email archive in MBOX format. You can open it with any email client (including the mail or mutt commands) or view it as plaintext with any text editor. It contains just over 200 emails. View: https://privatebin.net/?4c0fb59e63e8271e#irS3KFaEdtuFxsVM4xzQ4/llXLhSz0oZLV9WuOEUHBc= Download: https://mega.nz/#!xBpHBSAb!ENyoYPopqGVlx320X-a4ecpRjJBtPvd9jmRT9h57eao https://my.mixtape.moe/nhybsi.mbox I encourage you to read and form your own opinions, especially with regard to how the project is handling donation money. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
