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Yes, Emkhe is a gadfly hellbent on disrupting existing existing communities to further political ends rather than making any substantive contribution. This per

Yes, Emkhe is a gadfly hellbent on disrupting existing existing communities to further political ends rather than making any substantive contribution. This person has been causing problems for years, see: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 If people want to license their software under licenses like these, fine. But I would hesitate to use any licenses authored or promulgated by this person; I do not believe Emkhe operates in good faith. As a counter-example, look at rms. I don't use the GPL for anything I publish, but I really respect his commitment to promoting free software . He encourages its use where he can and worked to back good and useful code written under it instead of harassing those who didn't agree with him. He got zealous and enthusiastic at times, just like everyone who really believes in something, but I believe he's been making good-faith efforts to further his cause for a long time.

pengaru 6y ago
Seeing drama like that makes me super appreciative my Libre software projects have few users/contributors. What an obnoxious distraction.
- de_nied 6y ago
  Actually, I'd argue that these obnoxious distractions wouldn't be contributors or users unless it was somehow contributing to their moral agenda of "being right." Seeing Github and Linus crumble under these political and moral crusaders was unfortunate. I was glad to see that the maintainer in that project basically told them to hit the road because they were asking to remove a major contributor, without contributing anything themselves (unless you count their opinions and endless complaining as contributions).
  - pengaru 6y ago
    > Actually, I'd argue that these obnoxious distractions wouldn't be contributors or users unless it was somehow contributing to their moral agenda of "being right." I didn't mean to suggest these nuisances are a meaningful part of the user/contributor community. It's just they don't generally make an appearance unless there's an audience. Thinly veiled attention whores, leaving behind a particularly toxic wake of destruction. I'd have a lot more respect for such crusades if they were performed anonymously without buying favor among their peers or currency in the form of followers/likes/retweets/whatever.
    - de_nied 6y ago
      > I didn't mean to suggest these nuisances are a meaningful part of the user/contributor community. It's just they don't generally make an appearance unless there's an audience. I meant the projects that they contribute to aren't usually anything more than something extremely basic, or something that was made specifically for social justice.

pengaru 6y ago

Seeing drama like that makes me super appreciative my Libre software projects have few users/contributors. What an obnoxious distraction.

de_nied 6y ago
Actually, I'd argue that these obnoxious distractions wouldn't be contributors or users unless it was somehow contributing to their moral agenda of "being right." Seeing Github and Linus crumble under these political and moral crusaders was unfortunate. I was glad to see that the maintainer in that project basically told them to hit the road because they were asking to remove a major contributor, without contributing anything themselves (unless you count their opinions and endless complaining as contributions).
- pengaru 6y ago
  > Actually, I'd argue that these obnoxious distractions wouldn't be contributors or users unless it was somehow contributing to their moral agenda of "being right." I didn't mean to suggest these nuisances are a meaningful part of the user/contributor community. It's just they don't generally make an appearance unless there's an audience. Thinly veiled attention whores, leaving behind a particularly toxic wake of destruction. I'd have a lot more respect for such crusades if they were performed anonymously without buying favor among their peers or currency in the form of followers/likes/retweets/whatever.
  - de_nied 6y ago
    > I didn't mean to suggest these nuisances are a meaningful part of the user/contributor community. It's just they don't generally make an appearance unless there's an audience. I meant the projects that they contribute to aren't usually anything more than something extremely basic, or something that was made specifically for social justice.