Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” (24Sep2018)
Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”
UPDATE: ESR: "threat has teeth."
Most of the internet could be affected as some Linux devs threaten to rescind code in response to CoC controversy.If you care about using Linux, Android and so on, well worth reading. What is happening is truly crazy - and shocking. Commonsense seems to have totally deserted the SJW community
source: https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/
(PS: I'm not going to try to write more, as the above site says it all and I am not a coder, thus not qualified. I was mostly interested in how everyone is allowing the SJWs to dictate what we think of them). Don't forget to read the comments at bottom of their page, some are very relevant/interesting.)
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(Alexander Zenon Eustace)24th September
- posted on Steemit: 24th September, 2018
I read the article....which clarified nothing(to someone that had never heard of the Code of Conduct issue before). I read the comment thread below and gained a bit of understanding.
I am still confused.... are the opposers of the CoC the ones that threaten to pull Linux?
Is this kill switch a revocation of Copyright/usage? Meaning that Linux code wouldn't die or go away, it would just be prohibited from being used? Could it be used for money/pay? Or just not usable at all?
I don't know much, but one thread commenter seems to have it correct.... in volunteer coding...when contributors just contribute.....how is anyone getting discriminated?? No one knows most of these devs' identities. At least not when they are small and just getting started in developing and submitting code. This seems like much adieu about nothing... that could become something big and annoying. Won't Google/Android (someone that profits from Linux code) just claim that revoking the usage license puts the internet and commerce at risk and ask the government to do some sort of eminent domain???