Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: How quickly a bug gets fixed... Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 08:11:19 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <06IcP.24115$DPp5.21507@fx01.iad> <4dCdP.414403$bYV2.127384@fx17.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:11:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0bf5cb65b56517215e566c8c92ab258c"; logging-data="4018181"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/nFoi9RIQ9mUdCTaELE7k4" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EIBEMxEqyxj4rm5sod9/5wAS5cI= Bytes: 3230 On 2025-01-02, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2025-01-02 13:14, DFS wrote: >> On 1/1/2025 1:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:40:53 -0500, DFS wrote: >>> >>>> 11 of the the Top 25 on distrowatch I looked at a few months >>>> ago had no code of conduct or DEI statement on their website (doing a >>>> cursory search) ... >>> >>> I wonder what you think needs to be said. Do they have to declare that >>> they do not condone slavery? Or is that understood these days? >> >> >> It's not what needs to be said.  It's what needs to NOT be said.  Nobody >> needs an explicit "code of conduct" to guide their behavior (or face >> increasing levels of penalties as judged by The Council...ooohhh!!!). >> And nobody needs to be told a computer OS website and conference events >> are "welcoming nurturing safe spaces for everyone". >> >> Fedora DEI page: >> "Our key focuses are to engage, empower, and celebrate the contributions >> of women, LGBT+, BIPOC, and people with disabilities in Free and Open >> Source projects and communities." >> >> gag.  Contributions by females, queers, jigs and disabled people have >> always been welcomed in software... on the technical merits of the >> contributions. >> >> But overwhelmingly, straight White males have created the world's >> computer technology, and apparently that FACT needs to be "corrected" by >> shoving blue-haired dykes in our faces.  Pathetically, the straight >> White males that started these distros and technologies are social >> weaklings, and are allowing DEI and woke sickness to be plastered all >> over their distros. > > I made an account on the Fedora page and I was given the option to > choose pronouns to be referred by. It was disheartening but it was > clearly an option. The last time I filled out something at the doctor's office they had a crap form like that also. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien