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All true, stuff I didn’t like about her, but also ancient history (article is from 2014!) And like I said, you can follow the links and see the brigade discuss

All true, stuff I didn’t like about her, but also ancient history (article is from 2014!) And like I said, you can follow the links and see the brigade discussing something else entirely. Personally I don’t want an OSS ecosystem that banishes trans people or people who had weird proto-alt-right politics pre-Trump. If you’re gonna banish anyone, banish the ones posing existential risks to projects by their brigading against contributors they don’t like.

EGreg 4y ago
Yeah, I definitely prefer to be part of very inclusive and open OSS ecosystems, that do things in good faith. I am not part of the YCombinator or West Coast ecosystem, but didn't it banish gay people with weird pro-alt-right politics pre-Trump, and then supported Trump? Like, for some reason there was a movement to banish Peter Thiel: https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator How do you feel about banishing people who simply admitted to voting for Proposition 8: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla-ceo-resigns-under-fire-prop-8-20140403-story.html https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla... If you take a look at a larger problem, you'll see that there is a lot of inconsistency with human welfare on a far larger scale. Because this same system takes Saudi money a lot. The only moment of self-reflection came after one guy, Kashoggi, was killed: https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraising-1539808510 https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraisi... But not the situation of millions of people in Yemen: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 ... https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now-openly-courting-capital-from-saudi-arabia-despite-u-s-strains/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now... The US military industrial complex was largely involved in airstrikes on Yemen, as the Washington Post revealed last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/saudi-war-crimes-yemen/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20... As a country, we ignore the Yemen war, and are told to only clutch pearls about taking money from Russia due to the Ukraine war. I imagine that YC stopped taking Yuri Milner's money a decade ago, partly because of his ties to the Kremlin, but probably it was just a natural parting of ways eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084 Anyway, just saying ... ecosystems aren't always perfect.

EGreg 4y ago

Yeah, I definitely prefer to be part of very inclusive and open OSS ecosystems, that do things in good faith. I am not part of the YCombinator or West Coast ecosystem, but didn't it banish gay people with weird pro-alt-right politics pre-Trump, and then supported Trump? Like, for some reason there was a movement to banish Peter Thiel: https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator How do you feel about banishing people who simply admitted to voting for Proposition 8: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla-ceo-resigns-under-fire-prop-8-20140403-story.html https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla... If you take a look at a larger problem, you'll see that there is a lot of inconsistency with human welfare on a far larger scale. Because this same system takes Saudi money a lot. The only moment of self-reflection came after one guy, Kashoggi, was killed: https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraising-1539808510 https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraisi... But not the situation of millions of people in Yemen: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 ... https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now-openly-courting-capital-from-saudi-arabia-despite-u-s-strains/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now... The US military industrial complex was largely involved in airstrikes on Yemen, as the Washington Post revealed last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/saudi-war-crimes-yemen/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20... As a country, we ignore the Yemen war, and are told to only clutch pearls about taking money from Russia due to the Ukraine war. I imagine that YC stopped taking Yuri Milner's money a decade ago, partly because of his ties to the Kremlin, but probably it was just a natural parting of ways eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084 Anyway, just saying ... ecosystems aren't always perfect.