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I would not get worked up about it if it came from individual OSS projects, out of their own free will, one by one. However, in several OSS projects I follow,
by amSNAY 6y ago
I would not get worked up about it if it came from individual OSS projects, out of their own free will, one by one.
However, in several OSS projects I follow, it was always corporate steered "open" source devs who "proposed" the change and rammed it through, often against the majority opinion. To further their careers and stroke their egos.
Now GitHub, who still does business with sketchy companies (as does MSFT) does this entirely meaningless virtue signalling change.
Just to show OSS devs who is the boss and that they can do whatever they like with their money.
- Larrikin 6y agoAll of these meaningless gestures to you add up over time. A single company supporting BLM was untenable when the NFL players were doing their protests but they continued. The current protests were considered meaningless but they continued and are effecting change in society and also in legislation. The small things actually matter and it seems this small gesture matters to a lot of people on here even as they continue to say it's meaningless because removing references to slavery actually isn't meaningless.