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It also adds language about debias. So it doesn't simply remove meritocracy to appease the far-left activists. It specifically inserts language to appear them, reaffirm their world…

They are proposing removing meritocracy based on their political view that certain classes of people will never be able to participate on a level playing field. They are the ones a…

The evidence cited for meritocracy being an inappropriate word, a study on GitHub pull requests, has been widely debunked. Meritocracy is only an inappropriate word if you believe …

No. Eliminating meritocracy as a value doesn't discriminate against cis white males. Nor does meritocracy as a value discriminate against non-cis non-white people. This effort is a…

> Instead of abandoning a meritocracy because it has implementation issues, why don’t they just fix the problems? Because the small group of people pushing these changes don't want…

This is about changing the very nature of how open source projects work for people with radical political views to 'feel included', specifically to have their political views valid…

It's strange this has so many points and comments but almost instantly disappeared from the front page of HN.

The people pushing this radical view on diversity and equality tend to paint all people they see as marginalized as unable to compete on a level playing field.

> an acknowledgement that “this person is valuable insofar as they are like me.” Yeah, when evaluating PRs I rarely even look at the person making the contribution, I look at the c…

> The project also seeks to debias this system of distributing authority Because this is not about the governance documents of an open source software project, it is about affirmin…

The radical group pushing these language changes are explicitly opposed to meritocracy. They don't think they should have to justify their positions or their influence, they get it…

> At the community development level, your intentional and forced choices around language, schedule, pronouns, and even technical terminology can make contributors from varying bac…

These people thing changing the code of our institutions works, specifically by giving them more power, that we can rid our institutions of the worst aspects of human nature: racis…

The problems in FreeBSD CoC were widely discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406946 When people approached some of the FreeBSD Core Team with their concerns about vagu…

They are already attempting to control use of language and the foundational view of how open source works, based on their world view that equality is an illusion and only through u…

The governance documents of a open source software project are not being used to shut down debates about sexism and racism. The Mozilla and Rust communities are by far the most inc…

What about it is fake? A senior-level employee and strategist for Mozilla made this proposal to the governance listserv. It's up for serious discussion.

The movement pushing this worldview do not believe oppressed groups can ever meaningful participate in society without their help. They advance their 'help' to these groups and rel…

Patrick Finch is a high-level strategist for Mozilla, has been there 8 years.

Words are important. Diversity is important. Changing words like "meritocracy" does not improve diversity. It is the illusion of diversity, a feel-good opportunity for well-intenti…

Is something that happened in 1864 or 1964 going to prevent you from identifying a good engineer in front of you?

You could always buy a subscription to RHEL Workstation.

Haiku is not abandoned, it has relatively up to date ports of all the common compilers and libraries, but it just needs some polish. You could pick some rough edge and clean it up.…