On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:42:11AM +0100, Mary-Anne Wolf wrote: > I have been a financial supporter of Debian and FSF since... 2011 > at least. I first used emacs in... the 1980's I think it was. > > Way to drive away any female supporter of Debian and Libre software > generally, Debian! I really did think you were smarter than that. > > Look! An intern, a recently completed intern or somebody on a diversity > bursary to DebConf who wants to apply for an internship CANNOT give > consent to sex. That is why there is such a thing as statutory rape. > Thus, whether the young lady was presented herself as willing or whether > she was willing in any other sense, if she was there for those economic > reasons, she CANNOT have given consent to sex, so the sex MUST have > been rape as legally defined. > > Some of these women are very smart, smarter than many of the men here, > but they still come from a whole different world economically. > > Consent is an important concept. People were so pedantic about > definitions of consent in the recent FSF scandal. Why is Debian so > blind to this? > > If Debian mentors are too stupid to understand that, Debian needs to > throw them out with force and distance itself from them as fast as they > can, before Debian loses the support of most of its female supporters > and a large fraction of its more woke male supporters. > > It smells like these mentoring programs are fundamentally incompatible > with Debian's structure and culture. The CEO of McDonalds had to resign > for something like this but Debian makes the excuse that DebConf is a > social event. You circulate rumours about a mentor who wasn't even > at DebConf for the last two years but turn a blind eye to the real > rogue behaviour. > > The comments by RMS pale in comparison to what people are saying about > Debian, GSoC, Outreachy, groupies and casting couches at DebConf. > The actions of only one or two Debian Developers can cast a shadow over > all the interns. Do you think these women are a perk, like having > free beers or fitness centers in your silicon valley campuses? It > is indefensible. > > Is Debian nuts?
No, Debian is not nuts. > Mary-Anne Seen the "report". Please state what you expect that should get happen. Groeten Geert Stappers Assuming good faith -- Leven en laten leven
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