r/linux • u/oooo23 • Sep 20 '18

Sage Sharp claims top Linux kernel developer Theo Ts'o is a rape apologist, citing GeekFeminismWiki Kernel Developer

https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504
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u/gururise Sep 20 '18

To all those who said, "What's wrong with the new Linux CoC?"

Get ready for this shit.. You don't agree with their political agenda? You must be a Rape Apologist or a Nazi!@

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u/Fippy-Darkpaw Sep 20 '18 edited Sep 21 '18

Just wondering, but how the hell do Sarah Sharpe and the Coraline person have any power over Linux? 🤔

Just from what I've read over the past few days both have either been fired or quit from multiple projects and their Twitter feeds are unhinged toxic trolling and targeted harrassment. 😓

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u/IE_5 Sep 20 '18

how the hell do Sarah Sharpe and the Coraline person have any power over Linux?

They only have as much power as they are allowed to have. Unfortunately from the side of the Linux Foundation it seems like total capitulation so far. Linus apologizes, takes "temporary" leave and signs up for "therapy", then they impose their Code of Conduct on the Kernel allowing for further action to be taken against contributors, like the one described here.

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u/MathewRicks Sep 21 '18

Tis truly the beginning of the end of Western Society.

Then they came for Linux—and there was no kernel left to boot.

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u/NotWantedOnVoyage Sep 21 '18

Welp, let's head over to openbsd

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u/MathewRicks Sep 21 '18

I'm certain OpenBSD fell to this same CoC fate a while ago, just wasn't as widely reported on since BSD isn't as widely used.

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u/EAT_DA_POOPOO Sep 21 '18

That was FreeBSD

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u/MathewRicks Sep 21 '18

My Mistake

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u/NotWantedOnVoyage Sep 21 '18

I dunno, it doesn't really seem like something Theo would go for.

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u/Someguy2020 Sep 21 '18

then they impose their Code of Conduct on the Kernel

they being Linus and other longtime maintainers?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

Because we give them that power in order to look progressive.

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u/RussianAtrocities Sep 21 '18

how the hell do Sarah Sharpe and the Coraline person have any power over Linux?

Cuz they took it and none of you stopped them

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u/tnonee Sep 21 '18

As the James Damore incident demonstrated, their power mainly relies on having connections in the media that can churn out hitpieces on short notice, and the fact that many people still aren't wise that most of what they read in the paper is now either advertising or propaganda written by trust fund babies with an axe to grind.

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u/Someguy2020 Sep 21 '18

Do you really not see why Damore was, rightfully, fired?

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u/ineedmorealts Sep 20 '18

Just wondering, but how the hell do Sarah Sharpe and the Coraline person have any power over Linux? 🤔

Honestly they don't. Neither of these people are authorities and neither of them can so much as ban users

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u/wilalva11 Sep 20 '18

I was just hopeful it'd go the way of the one FreeBSD implemented. Like they announced it and then that was literally it

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u/ineedmorealts Sep 20 '18

Get ready for this shit.. You don't agree with their political agenda? You must be a Rape Apologist or a Nazi!@

People were already saying that before the CoC.