Posted on 09/25/2018 8:40:08 AM PDT by ShadowAce
More than a week after Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he would be taking a break from leading kernel development, it is still unclear as to what actually led to his decision. But one thing is crystal clear: the social justice warriors, who played a role in what happened, are now targeting another kernel developer, Ted Ts'o, who works for Google.
Was it the article in The New Yorker, as its author claimed, that led to Torvalds stepping down? Or was it pressure from kernel maintainers who were annoyed that Torvalds had bungled his schedules and planned a family vacation at the time when the maintainers summit was supposed to be held?
It is clear from the article in The New Yorker that the whole aim of what was essentially a hit job, and far from the usual standards that this august publication maintains, was to try and draw a connection between Torvalds' habit of abusive emails and the #MeToo movement. Cohen even managed to work the word in: "Many women who contribute to Linux point to another open-source project, Python, as a guide for Linux as its faces its #MeToo moment."
This is the only reason why Cohen could have decided to write a story on this topic; every story has an angle, and there was no angle to this at all in the current climate as Torvalds' email abuse is very old hat. And it was never directed against either sex.
The #MeToo movement has brought down many prominent people who have used their power to indulge in sexual harassment in the past, with a notable example being film producer Harvey Weinstein who, coincidentally, had his past laid bare in the same magazine, albeit by one Ronan Farrow, an effort that gained him a Pulitzer Prize.
But trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment is futile; the man has only dated one woman in his entire life, and he married her: Tove, a national karate champion in Finland, is the mother of his three daughters.
Cohen only spoke to a few people all from one side of the story: former kernel developers Valerie Aurora and Sage (formerly Sarah) Sharp, both of whom claim they left the kernel project as they were unable to put up with the harsh correspondence on email lists, and Megan Squire, a computer-science professor at Elon University, who carried out a survey in 2015 to find out the extent of use of profanity on the kernel mailing list. That study, by the way, made me laugh.
He did not bother to even go down to the Linux Foundation, which employs Torvalds, and speak to the chief executive Jim Zemlin. Email inquiries were considered sufficient for a story which could well mean the end of Torvalds' career as leader of the project.
iTWire contacted Cohen to inquire about his reason for writing this story at this time, but he did not bother to reply. Zemlin has, likewise, stayed mum.
Right after the story appeared, Sharp started focusing on Ts'o. Why Ts'o? It goes back a long time, to 2011 in fact, when he participated in a discussion on the mailing list for the Australian national Linux conference that year. Ts'o is a member of the Linux Foundation's technical advisory board.
Comments that he made were later interpreted by Aurora to call him a "rape apologist". That was picked up by Google employee Matthew Garrett and used to whack Ts'o.
The SJWs have been at work for a while, trying to impose so-called codes of conduct for every open-source project. Chief behind this is a woman named Coraline Ada Ehmke; when her efforts are frustrated, as they were when the Ruby project decided against embracing the CoC which she champions, she outdid Torvalds by a square mile in abusing the leader of that project.
Aurora has also taken aim at the Linux Foundation, claiming that "something is rotten" there. It must be remembered she ran a non-profit for a while after leaving kernel work, but was forced to shut it down in September 2015. From advocacy, she wandered into trying to coerce conferences into cancelling talks that she deemed inappropriate.
Whether Torvalds will return to lead the project is unknown. What seems more likely is that the Linux Foundation will create a sinecure for him, if only to avoid any more negative publicity.
But what happens to Ts'o will be more interesting to watch. Google is notorious for yielding to the demands of SJWs; last year it threw out one engineer, James Damore, when he circulated an internal screed about reverse discrimination in hiring practices.
If I were Ts'o, I would start looking for alternative employment right away. It doesn't matter if he is guilty in any way; the SJWs have a way of getting to companies which are looking to conform and be politically correct. Google is at the head of that list.
The strategy so far, active on many fronts:
1) There are people I don’t like
2) I will accuse them of horrible things
3) I win
Is Microsoft involved? Just kidding.
"Coraline" is a transgender.
"Coraline" is also the author of The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, which seeks to displace the entire concept of "merit" as a criteria for hiring and promotion.
The cancer of SJW lunacy is metastasizing through the tech world.
My true hope is that the #MeToo movement destroys itself from crying wolf too many times and getting caught in the lies.
Till then: #FightMeTooLiars
It either ends soon, forcibly, or it won't end at all.
Guilty!!!! Buhhhn her!!!! Now where did I put that eye-bleach?
The madness is spreading ever faster. Some really core contributors are threatening to rescind their license grants, which are permissions granted to the linux community to use their contributed code, which would likely hobble linux for awhile, across many industries and the internet in general.
Here’s a good overview of that aspect:
https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/
is a transgender.
Ok, so here’s the thing.
Say Coraline breaks into my house. Leaves DNA (hair, skin cells, spit, whatever. The police come, investigate, gather up the hair, etc. Test it. It comes back as “male”. Essentially, since Coraline lives as a “woman”, he’ll get away with the crime, right?
Now, say he murders someone - or many someones. DNA evidence will still point to a man.
That’s why this whole “transgender” shite is just that, shite.
XX = Female
XY = Male
Period.
More of the “Women” in tech that are genetically men. If they pull out all of the Transgender techies, the percentage of actual women is staggeringly low.
Here’s a good screenshot of many nasty tweets by the trani pictured above, responsible for CoC and all the controversy. The link below goes to an image of the screenshot, which you can click to zoom full size for better legibility. It’s a safe click, just ugly language from the left. Surprised?
https://hardforum.com/attachments/iqhloc3-png.105915/
I would like to send my compliments to her doctor. His mastery of the M->F transition procedure is nothing short of awe inspiring. She’s even ON THE RAG for crying out loud. How did he manage that? I had no idea they had come that far. Amazing.
Anything we Linux users need to be concerned about?
I don’t think so—at this time. Keep an ear open for news, though. Some licenses could get revoked if things get too far.
No, because the regular everyday people who keep Linux running and innovating—the developer community—is fighting this bullshit hard.
I’m not sure the Linux corporate hacks can sustain the fight. They thought it was a good idea, as all PR types in a company generally favor social justice crap.
When it gets push-back they are usually dumb-founded.
The CoC is getting extremely high push back. It’s actually Chick-Fil-A level.
I think in time, most will rescind this SJW-written CoC and come up with something a lot more bland and a lot less accusatory.
It’s not just Linux. The SJWs are infecting all of technology with their garbage and vanity posing.
I am at a big Microsoft conference this wee (Ignite). A friend of mine who I thought was level-headed was arguing that the founder of Chik-Fil-A opening supported gay bashing groups.
To him, gay-bashing means not worshipping gay marriage and the rainbow flag.
Much of it comes from corporate and academic HR departments demanding "inclusiveness". Who decides who gets sent to conferences? Are they going to get pressure from HR to send representatives who "highlight our diversity"?
And once these types are there, any politically-incorrect statement overheard ( like a dongle joke )will result in screams, protests, firings, and corporate upsets -- which make companies reluctant to allow people to go if they are highly competent but potentially lacking in social graces.
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