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Why do you care if a murderer wrote your filesystems? I care about the security and correctness of the code. I only care about the author who wrote it if they
by Sephr 9y ago
Why do you care if a murderer wrote your filesystems?
I care about the security and correctness of the code. I only care about the author who wrote it if they are someone known for low-quality, insecure, or malicious code.
If Linus Torvalds is convicted of genocide and child abuse tomorrow I'm going to continue using Linux as usual.
- Jonnax 9y agoThat's fine for you. But other people can have objections to it as is their right to. If you're part of a group and a chunk of them decide to leave, there's no point saying "why do you care about X? It doesn't affect the group." It's their right to leave. The other side is that who you associate with defines that group. So if it was a murderer that wrote a file system, then the software project gets defined by that. It becomes hard to attract contributors when the project gets defined by the actions of one of its participants. Project leaders then have to make a decision since inaction is also a decision.
- AstralStorm 9y agoIt is their right to leave, but is it their right to shame unrelated people who do not want to leave? There is a point where the shaming and shunning stops being useful and becomes bullying. We see this all the time in politics worth people liking "their team" too much and denigrating normal citizens just for their opinions and choices.
- VLM 9y ago"It becomes hard to attract contributors when the project gets defined by the actions of one of its participants." I'm unaware of anyone ever making a decision about contributing to a software project based on secret police level surveillance of current team members political or religious opinions. Even classified DoD stuff I've been involved in isn't that creepy. Its important to focus discussion on extremes such as murders when the actual goal is to make sure Republicans are unemployable.