Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.

Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.

I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.

If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nope, you are making that up, I never suggested that.

    Words carry more weight than their explicit meaning. I’ll leave you with one sentence to put what you said in perspective.

    “She could’ve prevented it by not walking home alone at night wearing such provocative clothing”.

    that dude is a nobody that did a rage-bait to get his 15 minutes of fame

    I think the analogy of the example sentence applies perfectly to this sentence too. You’re basically saying “he was asking for it” and no, he wasn’t. He so obviously wasn’t.