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I think the main points are: > "The GNU Kind Communication is not wrong in its words, it's wrong in that it only addresses a tiny slither of the problems we ha
by asqueella 8y ago
I think the main points are:
> "The GNU Kind Communication is not wrong in its words, it's wrong in that it only addresses a tiny slither of the problems we have in the community"
> "In the [..] announcement, RMS explicitly states that diversity is not a goal of his. This is a mistake"
> "if people feel excluded, they will never join the community and thus we'll never see their contributions."
It ends with a call to "ignore" or "entirely rewrite the guidelines" and "adopt more comprehensive Codes of Conduct which provide guidelines on what behavior is acceptable, what behavior is not, and what steps the community will do in enforcing them" without addressing the points Stallman raised, such as "A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them. It is the heavy-handed way of teaching people to
behave differently".
- emacsen 8y agoThe idea that there is this "heavy handedness" is a bit silly when the entire GPL is based on the idea that we impose limits on developers. I don't have the exact quote but he's written that the reciprocal nature of the GPL only effect people who want to do bad things. That's how I feel about Codes of Conduct.
- thomastjeffery 8y agoThe only thing the GPL imposes is to disallow developers from imposing limits on users. The freedom that the GPL protects is singular and explicit. Codes of conduct are not similar in these aspects. They each define a unique list of "user protections" that chill speech.