Linux Kernel Preparing New Guidelines For Using Inclusive Terminology

[iwantlinuxgames]

Irony: People on a forum describing something they dislike as "Communist" while they compose and post their viewpoints on an Operating System based around a communist model....

[oyvind]

I dislike these politicized changes to program source code. The blind refusal to interpret common terms by their context is in itself polarizing and dangerous. If meaning can be made clearer by replacing terms, sure, that would be a general improvement in any case. But being totally out-of-context-offended by something as universal as naming of colours is not a good reason. In fact it is extremist. These actions are harming the cause of equality by assigning new racist meaning to well established tech terminology and creating unnecessary tension and fear.

[iwantlinuxgames]

Addendum:

I'm no fan of Marx since Marx placed the state above the family unit, however, this statement from Marx pretty much sums up the Open Source model:

"From each, according to his skill, to each, according to his need"

[starshipeleven]

Millennials ruin everything.

Boomers didn't leave much else to ruin

[starshipeleven]

Isn't Holocaust-denial grounds for a ban?

theoretically yes, the hard part is understanding what he is writing at all

[starshipeleven]

Irony: People on a forum describing something they dislike as "Communist" while they compose and post their viewpoints on an Operating System based around a communist model....

Opensource isn't based around a communist model.

[cesarcafe]

Opensource isn't based around a communist model.

Open source isn't based around a communist model, but copyleft licenses (and the GNU manifesto) are. Obviously, public domain and open source copyright licenses have nothing in common with communism.

[cesarcafe]

One thing I don't understand is who decides these changes. I mean, if Joe asks to move the coding style to Whitesmiths style , failure would be guaranteed, but... the shocking thing here is that somebody (who?) decides to change the English language and everybody jumps in the bandwagon. If it was Apple, Microsoft, or Google, it would be obvious: Executives and investors rule. But... the Linux kernel... who has such a great amount of power to make these changes and everybody obbey?

[starshipeleven]

Open source isn't based around a communist model, but copyleft licenses ... are.

Copyleft license is still completely tangential to communism as it is NOT dealing with code ownership.
In fact it 100% relies on the concept of private property to enforce arbitrary limitations, in this case to enforce perceived freedoms of individuals using the software.

(and the GNU manifesto)

yeah they are communists allright

Obviously, public domain and open source copyright licenses have nothing in common with communism.

Actually no.

Public domain is the only type of "license" that can be defined as communist. Any work defined as "public domain" has no legal owner and is a true "communal property" of everyone.
Just like all the stuff that comes out of copyright or patents. Once they expire it's communal property.

[starshipeleven]

who has such a great amount of power to make these changes and everybody obbey?

the kernel maintainers