I'm glad I don't live from your perspective, onpon4. There's nothing wrong
with an organization or software project making a statement in regards to the
changes they want to make in order to become more inclusive.
The following from the Hacker News post
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12525465&goto=news) makes some good
points in response to the argument that "technical progress" should be a
priority in situations like these:
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This is a serious issue and you're not helping by trying to dismiss it as
childish or otherwise delegitimizing it. It's very easy to say “technical
progress” should be a priority when the issue in question doesn't affect
you personally but that reflects a gross failure of empathy on your part
rather than an argument against the Libreboot decision. Open source
development, especially in the FSF's area, is generally about people
volunteering their time and valuable expertise to contribute to a public
good. It is simply unreasonable and unrealistic to suggest that people
prioritize that goal over every other consideration. As a hypothetical,
suppose the issue in question was anti-Semitism and a Jewish maintainer
decided to leave – would you really tell them that they should just be
focused on creating a free operating system?
To be clear: I am not saying that this is a valid complaint, that the FSF is
in the right or wrong, etc. I don't know any details about the incidents in
question but I can see that it's a serious allegation which should not be
arbitrarily dismissed. I hope that the FSF works to ensure that the community
and potential new contributors can trust them to follow their stated
policies.
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