Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Oh Well ... Maybe We'll Return to Linux/Unix AFTER The Election Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 17:27:24 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:27:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cb1e832f2c781dc5cff1ce3358950542"; logging-data="4127117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IvwG7ImdBkvBfkWryr/IUhtCfG5mXau4=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-18-amd64 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3HnYEy9KvXSONFLYsd4wrdkVNWs= Bytes: 1724 In alt.folklore.computers Borax Man wrote: > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] > On 2024-10-23, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >> Indeed a contentious US election. It has now >> invaded even the Linux groups. >> >> Let's hope that things will go more back to >> normal in a couple of weeks. >> > > I doubt it. The "politics" people are relentessly insufferable. > > There is also the problem of people bring politcs INTO software > development. Software development is infested with such people. Since you posted this, multiple open-source projects and even a standards organization have banned good developers for purely political reasons. A killfile is insufficient for dealing with that.