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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:25:20 +0000
From:   unconditionedwitness@redchan.it
To:     fche@redhat.com, dng@lists.dyne.org
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Subject: Re: Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.
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The goal is obviously to shatter the gentleman's agreement that upholds 
the opensource community and end opensource as a force within the US and 
commonwealth countries.

And it will likely succeed.

No gratis contributor wants to be told what he can say or what he can do 
"or else we won't let you give us this gift!".

FreeBSD has lost 1/2 its contributors after their woman-worshiping 
service known as the investiture of the CoC.

This will continue until all of OSS is a rotting corpse.
And then maybe some of the disaffected will revoke their license grants 
and bury the effluence.

On 2018-09-21 13:07, fche@redhat.com wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> writes:
> 
>> [...]  The goal of the code of conduct is to make the community
>> welcoming, and to help people with being a part of the Linux
>> community.  [...]
> 
> That may well be the goal.  But the proper way to evaluate policy is 
> not
> the laudability of its goals but its forseeable and/or actual effects.
> Is there any plan to evaluate the CoC empirically somehow to see if it
> accomplishes what its proponents hope?
> 
> - FChE