On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:55:38PM +0300, m712 wrote:
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> On September 19, 2018 8:09:52 PM GMT+03:00, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> >Long observation of
> >people resenting CoCs is they want the right to speak cruelly to
> >individuals and speak cruelly about groups of people, those groups
> >having nothing to do with the list's core foundation (Linux sans
> >systemd, in our case).
> Sorry, Steve, that's intellectually dishonest. You're painting a black-and-white picture of "if people oppose CoCs then they must want to do things not allowed by the CoCs", however in all instances I have encountered where the need for a CoC was disputed I have seen the exact opposite. You do not need a CoC to protect people from bad words, and people who are contributing nothing but insults are quickly killfiled. CoCs do nothing but introduce filibustering in between contributors. The previous "Code of Conflict" was entirely adequate. The creator of the Contributor Covenant has written a "Post-Meritocracy Manifesto"[1] which describes meritocracies as "benefit[ing] those with privilege", aka social justice bullshit. The Linux kernel community /depends/ on a meritocracy, and this is absurd.

The Linux kernel community, as any coding community, is based on
people that do things together, share common goals and principles,
trust each other, and produce actual code.

Social science is very good for discussing about the plus and minus of
a community, which behaviours are good or bad, which things could be
done in order for the community to become more like this or more like
that. But social science alone does not deliver code. And code is what
your computer needs to run. You can argue as much as you want with
your wifi card, or even yell at it in rage, but that won't convince it
to work without a proper device driver for your OS. That driver needs
a hacker to be written.

I know that what I say is harsh, and that many people might feel
offended by that, but honestly most of the people I have heard talking
about CoCs and post-meritocracy so far are those who have no clue of
how a large (or even a small) piece of software is put together. There
are obviously exceptions, but are not many, unfortunately.

The Linux kernel is available to billions of people only thanks to a
bunch of damn good hackers, who have collectively produced code worth
millions of man-months without the need of a silly CoC or of a
post-meritocracy manifesto. IMHO, the only "privilege" they have
enjoyed is to have produced something useful for a lot of
people. Sadly, most of us can only dream about that.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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