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Open Letter to the Linux Foundation (Programmer banned from conference for MAGA hat)
The Clean Code Blog ^ | November 8, 2019 | Robert C. Martin

Posted on 11/08/2019 11:14:39 AM PST by karpov

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To: kiryandil

Tell them “Great! Guess the Linux Foundation did not really need all those donations from conservative organizations, business, and users! Better to be safe than sorry right?” lol


21 posted on 11/08/2019 1:06:01 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
Tell them “Great! Guess the Linux Foundation did not really need all those donations from conservative organizations, business, and users! Better to be safe than sorry right?” lol

We'll use their free stuff - but they won't get one thin dime.

Wonder if there's a way conservatives can disrupt their development processes?

You know, like The Resistance against Trump? Keep their free stuff, but mine the development roads.

22 posted on 11/08/2019 1:25:43 PM PST by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: kiryandil

Know how many conservative businesses and organizations support and donate heavily to Linux? A mass email campaign to these organizations alerting them of this situation would destroy them if they didn’t backtrack right away. I already hit the Linux Foundation with an email myself as a businessman who donates.

Read around on here.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/


23 posted on 11/08/2019 1:35:38 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Tell It Right
In my teens when I was a geek, we geeks avoided the freaks.

Then came that stupid show "Freaks and Geeks" and teen geeks were taught that they should be one with the freaks.

I wonder if this show actually had a significant effect on turning geeks into freaks.

I realize it was never very popular, but if a large percentage of geeks watched it, it would still have had low ratings.

Taking my tin hat off now.

24 posted on 11/08/2019 3:19:58 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: kiryandil

Pollute the open source then syndicate items

I like the way you think !


25 posted on 11/08/2019 4:02:56 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Openurmind

> ABSOLUTELY! In the tech world there are not many options and unfortunately they are liberal or liberal or liberal. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I hear China is working up an OS. It may be the lesser of all evils.


26 posted on 11/08/2019 4:38:06 PM PST by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: Openurmind
"Just a thought to ponder MS is a much much bigger anti-Trump organization."

Than Apple?? Sorry...but I do NOT believe that. NO organization is more liberal than Apple (except in collecting money, which they do with more alacrity than John Pierpont Morgan). They wear left-hood like a badge.

27 posted on 11/09/2019 4:27:36 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Normally I would absolutely agree. But we have to remember how diversified Microsoft really is, they even own 5% of Apple. If you add up all these different companies they own or are invested in the total of liberalism influence is HUGE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft


28 posted on 11/09/2019 5:20:56 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

And so is Apple diversified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple

Still not buying it. The intensity of left-hood at Apple is far greater than at Microsoft, and includes most of their customer base.


29 posted on 11/09/2019 6:03:32 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: karpov; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Tech Ping


30 posted on 11/11/2019 3:34:09 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: z3n

Actually no. Kicking someone out for a Maga hat is the worst of all of them so far.


31 posted on 11/11/2019 4:37:30 AM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: ShadowAce
Well, this really sucks. The good news is I can continue to use Ubuntu and CentOS for free and don't end up supporting the azzhats in the Foundation.

But what a disappointment, even if not entirely unexpected.

32 posted on 11/11/2019 6:19:57 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: karpov

Leftists are vindictive little shits. Perhaps we should start trying to drum them out of existence for wearing their stupid ‘Che’ shirts, glorifying a sadistic murderer.


33 posted on 11/11/2019 7:20:10 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: ShadowAce

Properly written code is neither Liberal nor Conservative!

Poorly written code can be either.


34 posted on 11/11/2019 7:20:18 AM PST by BraveMan
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To: Openurmind

[[I already hit the Linux Foundation with an email myself]]

Any response from them? any update on the fella that got banned?


35 posted on 11/11/2019 9:36:25 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

No reply yet Bob, and I just checked their site for any notices and nothing.


36 posted on 11/11/2019 10:04:23 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: for-q-clinton

“Kicking someone out for a Maga hat is the worst of all of them so far.”

Especially when he wore the hat while in NY and not at the conference. As far as I can see, banning him was their loss, not his.

This kind of behavior is why a lot of Trump supporters keep their mouth shut and wait until they are in the voting booth to express their opinion.


37 posted on 11/11/2019 2:39:58 PM PST by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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