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Unless you are an involved party you're just adding to the mob. The kernel maintainers said their piece there's no need for everyone to pile on.
by jdsully 5y ago
Unless you are an involved party you're just adding to the mob. The kernel maintainers said their piece there's no need for everyone to pile on.
- WrtCdEvrydy 5y agoI am a user of the Linux kernel which a publicly funded university using my tax dollars just attempted to subvert in order to jerk themselves off over a research paper.
- burnished 5y agoMaybe there is? I'm not convinced of my own position but I'd suggest there is a difference from an outcry sourced in people that are well informed of their complaint and the sort of brigading/bandwagoning you can see come from personal details being posted under a complaint.
- jdsully 5y agoI guess the question is what more is there to accomplish? They’ve been banned and I gurantee they already know the community is pissed. Is filling up their inbox with angry emails going to actually help in any way?
- burnished 5y agoI'm trying to reconcile what you are saying with all the "write your senator" I've heard all my life, you know? I think the answer is "yes it will help, in as much strong arguments may be persuasive". Honestly I'm not sure there is a good answer considering that part of what we're weighing against is the potential for the internet to help create an outsized or aggravated response.
- jdsully 5y agoYour senator makes decisions based on public will and letter writing is a proxy for that. They have a team to deal with the inflow. Your average PhD student isn't equipped in the same way to deal with an outraged public.