On 19/09/2018 16:33, observerofaffa...@redchan.it wrote: > The CoC will lead only to infighting amongst the contributors, with > this new weapon wielded firmly in all participants hands. > > It is another example of "looking the gift horse in the mouth" > (Linus telling everyone to [fsck] off is the previous example] > and will only be tolerated by the hirelings. The community > contributors will fade away and the complete corporate takeover of the > kernel will be complete. > > Linux will suffer the same fate as the FreeBSD team (who have lost > half their contributors), additionally morally-questionable code (ie: > code that befits content owners over the user, code that benefits the > security interests of the states over the user, etc) will be folded > into the kernel with a smile. > [...] > The Free Software movement is, and will continue to be decimated by > this industry-wide advance for the next 5 years at-least, as project > after project falls to classic divide and conquer techniques that date > to before the Roman empire. Programmers, though brilliant in their > specific field, tend to be ignorant of even basic human management > practice - and resistant to learn.
I make no comment about whether or not there is some kind of intentional plan going on here but I fear that your prediction of where things are headed is correct. The values that helped us all and protected both people and software are being eroded and taken over. -- Mark Rousell
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