Posted on 09/23/2018 2:55:41 PM PDT by tbw2
Most of the internet could be affected as some Linux devs threaten to rescind code in response to CoC controversy.
I said “if this is true,” which I doubt is the case.
Linux is a UNIX-like operating system that started life with a MINIX code base and was enhanced with lots of guidance to Linux Torvalds from people in the industry that wanted him to succeed. Source code from many UNIX versions was captured and massively cleaned up with the GNU C compiler built by Richard Stallman. It really has been a massive community effort. Thus far, separated for the social justice PC tainted behavior. If that is what is coming to the Linux open source collaboration, then all hell is likely to break loose. My customers and contracts staff have always been vary wary of open source software licenses. The threat of losing control over your software build because a key library is ripped away or restricted can turn a viable project into a dead duck.
I have been part of that community since the early 80s. One of my quiet contributions was the restructure of the internal tables used for the "zip" compression utility. When I first got the source, it wouldn't play on my big-endian machines. After restructure, it worked great on every CPU I could lay my hands on. I fed it back and the reward was the utility appeared on many more platforms in the ensuing months. That was the nature of the beast. We shared each other's work. We improved it and shared the improvements. Many of us worked for big corporations and used the open source to speed development. The corporations effectively provided a "shadow" support for the community while enjoying the benefits of the code reuse.
I did the same with David Korn on his Korn shell. I ported to 30 different platforms. When I spotted a problem, I shared it with David. He confirmed and applied the fix. That was before we had nice platforms lit "github" to share collaborative effort. E-mail was sufficient.
Not the program...the programmer. The guy who invented JavaScript worked at Netscape/Mozilla. He was driven out by the LGBTQ hard left inside the company. Where would the net be if he chose to withdraw rights to use JavaScript and any derivatives in response to being forced out of his employment by the social justice pukes? When software is written, a competent author applies a copyright and license statement at the top of each file. That copyright and license carries a level of risk to anyone who uses the software or derivative works. The author retains the right to withdrawn authorization for use. If that code is in the guts of your critical corporate application, you'll have to excise it, provide written proof that you have done so and engage in writing a suitable replacement to rescue your application. I've been on many projects where the management was unwilling to risk the exposure and opted to write an "in house" equivalent.
This is the logical result of relying entirely on care/harm and fairness as moral channels.
Whoever is/acts the most hurt and screams “it isn’t fair” the most is considered the most correct and to be obeyed. Including those who engage in emotional blackmail to get what they want.
Post meritocracy is exactly what it sounds like. Go look it up. It is social justice types declaring that adherence to SJW principles is more important than merit or skill or competence. This is the cancer which has spread throughout academia, and has now taken root in the software community.
Pol Pot tried the "post-meritocracy" approach in Cambodia. The piles of realistic Halloween decorations was impressive.
I don’t believe there is a “kill switch”. They can’t remotely change the kernel that is on any Linux computer.
If in doubt, don’t accept any kernel updates.
Engineering is a “cruel” profession. If code doesn’t work and a business loses millions, if a bridge falls, if a million engines get recalled, no one really gives a crap about the politics or sexual habits of the designers. The only thing that matters is if it is good design and execution - or not. Unlike the “creative” (I hate the modern usage of that word) professions, opinions based upon feelings are worth absolutely nothing.
I have found that disagreement on an engineering matter, even if discussed strictly in a professional context in what would think a civil manner, can be considered sexual assault. No personal attacks, no condescending tone, yet still any disagreement is rape.
Impressive. You should start a new conservative form of SWIPE or PAYPAL.
My work uses SQL, SAP CRYSTAL, EPSI, DATAMART. As fast as I learn new how to build queries and reports my employer changes to new ones.
Doors are closing all over the world. People need to wake up to the fact we are in a f***ing war.
Sounds like an IT problem.
Way back in the dark ages, I was working with some DEC VMS hardware, and was digging through some man pages discussing a protocol similar to NTP (Network Time Protocol). The description cracked me up. It seems that one system would be designated as the "Master" time server, and all the other slave systems would periodically check with it to make sure their time was in sync. If the master died, or was for whatever reason unavailable, the slaves would hold an election to elect a new master, who would take over as the authoritative time server until/unless the old master returned.
The way it was written was hilarious (in geek terms).
That's a question we'll need to answer before the left drives us out of tech completely.
They’re colluding to shut out the competition.
Gab.AI was banned from the Android app store. Google said it was for enabling “hate speech”. In reality, Google’s special relationship with Twitter is also a factor in discriminating against the tech firm.
Facebook, Google, Apple and Instagram colluded back in 2016 to fight Trump. Since they manipulated search results and news feeds, downgrading search results for rivals in the name of love, tolerance and other warm and fuzzy words is likely.
Outright banning and shadow-banning of accounts by these startups has probably occurred.
You just described VMS clustering.
BTW, a chunk of the work to make OpenVMS run on x86-64 has been completed.
OpenVMS is tanned, rested, & almost ready to go.
VMS was interesting. I never really got to spend that much time with it though. Got to know enough to make me dangerous, but not much more. We were moving to unix at the time.
Anything, anything, other than meritocracy, is filth, and should be loudly and publicly called out as such at every opportunity. Scum.
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