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Originally posted by hotaru View Post
a lot of would-be GNU contributors have been pushed to the fringe by people like RMS. I've made exactly one contribution to a GNU project, and the general hostility to women that I encountered convinced me never to do that again. I still use a lot of GNU software and make various fixes and enhancements, but I no longer even consider contributing my changes upstream. I'm sure there are others like me who are watching to see if the eventual outcome of this RMS situation makes contributing upstream viable.
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Originally posted by hotaru View Posta lot of would-be GNU contributors have been pushed to the fringe by people like RMS. I've made exactly one contribution to a GNU project, and the general hostility to women that I encountered convinced me never to do that again. I still use a lot of GNU software and make various fixes and enhancements, but I no longer even consider contributing my changes upstream. I'm sure there are others like me who are watching to see if the eventual outcome of this RMS situation makes contributing upstream viable.
Many thanks
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Originally posted by hotaru View Post
a lot of would-be GNU contributors have been pushed to the fringe by people like RMS. I've made exactly one contribution to a GNU project, and the general hostility to women that I encountered convinced me never to do that again. I still use a lot of GNU software and make various fixes and enhancements, but I no longer even consider contributing my changes upstream. I'm sure there are others like me who are watching to see if the eventual outcome of this RMS situation makes contributing upstream viable.
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Originally posted by Redfoxmoon View Post
No counter argument to be made, so the ad-hominem attacks come out, classy.
I'm mostly annoyed by the ambient conspiracy in those forums. Muh RH evil, they were behind it all along.
Though you are missing the point. It's the same kind of crap people say whenever they disagree politically: "If you don't like it, just leave!"
They don't leave because there is more to lose, and what they are complaining about is not an immutable aspect of the organization.
You could just apply this argument to literally anything, and it would work. And that's what makes the argument so annoying to hear.
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Originally posted by caligula View PostThe maintainer of GNU Classpath, LMAO. There has been no new releases of Classpath in almost 8 years. Besides, GCJ was axed some time after GCC 6. What kind of maintenance work is there left? Isn't OpenJDK freely licensed now?
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Originally posted by squash View Post
It seems from previous stories that the anti-Stallman brigade is a fringe minority of GNU contributors. By all means, if they have an issue with the person at the top of the chain they are welcome to fork and do their own thing independently. In many cases, the project might be stronger without their participation.
Unfortunately, I think that such actual maintainers did more than most people pushing this argument combined.
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