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Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

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Re: Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

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Post by nodesocket »

I'm sorry, but how is this different than discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)? This sort of stuff has no place in a business setting. Unfortunately this is the world we live in; everybody is outraged over something and claiming to be open and inclusive, as long as it prescribes to their own beliefs.

Where are the TechCrunch social justice warriors (Megan Rose Dickey) about this?

Re: Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

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Post by Lazare »

chuckdries wrote: post #2

Anyone here use drupal? I'm only vaguely aware of it. What does this mean for the project? I know my university uses it for their entire website.

Drupal is a fairly popular CMS. As for what this means for the project, nothing good, but probably nothing serious either. They've lost of of their major contributors, and they've gained a lot of bad press, but it's still a huge project with a major corporate backer. The long run trajectory probably hasn't changed too much.

(Note: Drupal is essentially controlled by Acquia, and it was Acquia's CTO who decided to purge Garfield.)

Re: Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

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Post by jackbravo »

ThrustVectoring wrote: post #6

Link should be to the original source, https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/sex-and-gor-and-open-sourc...

The original source would be this link: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

Followed by this by Dries Buytaert, Drupal BDFL: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

And then there was this other response from Larry: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2

And besides techcrunch, there was this other piece by inc.com: http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.html

Re: Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

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Post by mamurphy »

nodesocket wrote: post #3

I'm sorry, but how is this different than discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)? This sort of stuff has no place in a business setting. Unfortunately this is the world we live in; everybody is outraged over something and claiming to be open and inclusive, as long as it prescribes to their own beliefs. Where are the TechCrunch social justice warriors (Megan Rose Dickey) about this?

>how is this different that discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)?

Garfield made that exact analogy in his reply (https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing).

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