Old-school open source culture/projects were developed by the figurative (and sometimes literal) "dude in his basement". Once described by Linus in a post to the kernel mailing list as (paraphrased) "I'm just a dude working on this stuff at home in my bathrobe; no one's paying me to be polite or politically correct". One of the guys who worked on a rather core part of the kernel was a self-taught ambulance driver who did it as an evening hobby.
The Mozilla Foundation was and is a non-profit run like a corporation complete with a CEO and marketing, HR, and PR departments. Stuff the old-school programmers were trying to escape by doing open source. The primary contributors to Firefox were and are employees of that Foundation. And nowadays a lot of the kernel development is done by employees of Intel and Red Hat employed for the express purpose of doing that work.
The fat feminists were only allowed to gain a foothold because open source culture disappeared and was replaced with corporate culture because the community of "skilled, independent people" was replaced with employees of giant companies paying for a work product. But this predated the fat feminists showing up.
Though even this analysis is incomplete because it ignores the "Linus effect": the independent left-leaning programmers in left-wing enclaves who didn't like political correctness but also didn't like being grouped together with the "evil right" and ultimately decided to become politically correct (or at least stop counter-signaling it) to side with their tribe. Under normal circumstances these people can't stand the useless left-wing "activist" types but ultimately understand they're all on the same side. They'll gladly work with a Black trans-lesbian but simply want "her" to be good at "her" job.
They had power and they handed it to the woke lefties.
Agree completely.
JK Rowling and the "intellectual dark web" are not a voting bloc - there are about as many of them among the gen. pop. as there are nevertrump neocons.
I think there's a ton more of them than this, but they lack power over their party. I've voted liberal my whole life and I'm not going to do it next time. I will vote for people like desantis in a heartbeat over these fucked up assholes the dems put in power now.
That is to say, generously, that they represent about a fraction of a percent of the Democrat coalition.
I do not agree, but the problem as you put it is they have barely any power in their party. Maybe "none" would be more accurate.
I disagree with this take somewhat.
Old-school open source culture/projects were developed by the figurative (and sometimes literal) "dude in his basement". Once described by Linus in a post to the kernel mailing list as (paraphrased) "I'm just a dude working on this stuff at home in my bathrobe; no one's paying me to be polite or politically correct". One of the guys who worked on a rather core part of the kernel was a self-taught ambulance driver who did it as an evening hobby.
The Mozilla Foundation was and is a non-profit run like a corporation complete with a CEO and marketing, HR, and PR departments. Stuff the old-school programmers were trying to escape by doing open source. The primary contributors to Firefox were and are employees of that Foundation. And nowadays a lot of the kernel development is done by employees of Intel and Red Hat employed for the express purpose of doing that work.
The fat feminists were only allowed to gain a foothold because open source culture disappeared and was replaced with corporate culture because the community of "skilled, independent people" was replaced with employees of giant companies paying for a work product. But this predated the fat feminists showing up.
Though even this analysis is incomplete because it ignores the "Linus effect": the independent left-leaning programmers in left-wing enclaves who didn't like political correctness but also didn't like being grouped together with the "evil right" and ultimately decided to become politically correct (or at least stop counter-signaling it) to side with their tribe. Under normal circumstances these people can't stand the useless left-wing "activist" types but ultimately understand they're all on the same side. They'll gladly work with a Black trans-lesbian but simply want "her" to be good at "her" job.
Disagree completely, but the problem is they have absolutely no power.
Agree completely.
I think there's a ton more of them than this, but they lack power over their party. I've voted liberal my whole life and I'm not going to do it next time. I will vote for people like desantis in a heartbeat over these fucked up assholes the dems put in power now.
I do not agree, but the problem as you put it is they have barely any power in their party. Maybe "none" would be more accurate.