On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Peter West <p...@pbw.id.au> wrote: > The ASF has free software, freely produced by anyone who wants to put his > or her hand up. Talk about “diversity” is deeply divisive, and all of the > BS that accompanies it is the antithesis of freedom. It is the impulse of > petty totalitarians who are determined to impose their views on others, and > to marginalise and denigrate and demonise those who think…diversely. Need I > mention Brendan Eich here? >
Peter, Please refrain from characterizing people like me as petty totalitarians just because I like to find out why ASF doesn't attract a representative sample of the population of computer scientists. I am not trying to marginalize or denigrate, but you, on the other hand, are clearly being pretty insulting. > > So keep this stuff out of the ASF, please. You are free to pursue > whatever other (non-software) obsessions you like in your own time, and > those big software houses with their diversity departments will accomodate > you at work. > I am very tempted to be really rude here. Let me just say that I am not trying to impose anything on you and trying to understand what brings people to Apache and what keeps them away is a key step in community building. I suppose that I should add that your attitude is illuminating on the problem of what keeps people away.
