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background-color:rgba(220,220,240,0.4); border-radius:3px;"> <b>Subject:</b>Re:
Are we really wasting time on this?<br>
<b>From:</b>The Wanderer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wanderer@fastmail.fm"><wanderer@fastmail.fm></a><br>
<b>To:</b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tb-Planning@mozilla.org">Tb-Planning@mozilla.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"><tb-planning@mozilla.org></a> <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Saturday, 23/1/2021 22:59<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 2021-01-23 at 16:53, ace wrote:
> Dňa 18. 1. 2021 o 20:59 Patrick Cloke napísal(a):
>> In terms of this particular issue, this is a trend happening in
>> many open-source communities:
>
> This does not mean it is the right thing to do. Can you name some
> projects NOT run by "megacorps" (which just do anything to appear to
> be politically correct according to transient trends)?
Debian has at least considered doing it ("master" -> "latest"), and
possibly actually decided to do it, although primarily as recommended
defaults and not as a requirement AFAICT.</pre>
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<p>The choice of "<i>Latest</i>" seems a little weird, why not trunk
or root? Latest is often not really the latest when you are
back-porting changes to an older branch.</p>
<p>On a general level, I would be extremely careful giving too much
room to the woke spearhead trying to regulate the technology field
(and especially trying to control language) - we all know there is
nothing inherently racist in the usage of terms like master (as
long as you do not pair it with the opposing term "slave") ,
example:</p>
<p><i>She is a master Luthier. </i><i><br>
</i></p>
<p><i>Your cooking is masterful.</i></p>
<p>These are moral signals executed by the main stream to appease a
culture that tries to politicize everything; what seems to be a
harmless change at first will be in the long term used to gain
leverage for shifting power and control to people who do not
contribute very much to the core, imho. Also the way that equity
is used, is anti-meritocratic and toxic. On the harmless end it's
actually a form of wasting time navel-gazing and on the extreme
end it's being used to destroy communities by utilizing wedge
issues in order to exert power, and shifting from community to
governance. At the moment the latest fad is "critical race theory"
which has a net effect of racialising people who actually got on
fine with each other for decades. Control is the enemy of freedom,
and that includes "language hygiene". <br>
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<p>This is just my personal opinion as I see a lot of censorious
people stunting alternative cultures and technologies. And people
being ostracized for having "wrong think" - basically political /
medical or personal opinions that do not adhere to the templates
prescribed by the mainstream cathedral. I don't think this is
particularly fault of being in a corporation, this infection is
not systemic, it's created by individuals.<br>
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<p>So please: proceed with caution. Don't let your good will be
abused by people who don't contribute and look for power.</p>
<p>have a great day,<br>
Axel<br>
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