Great post!
> <https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-03-9-b> > > Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond > Mar 9, 2020 > > Last week, Eric S Raymond (often known as ESR > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond>, author of The Cathedral > and the Bazaar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar>, > and co-founder of the Open Source Intiative > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative>) was banned from the > Open Source Intiative (the “OSI”). > > Specifically, Raymond was banned from the mailing lists used to organize > and communicate with the OSI. > > For an organization to ban their founder from communicating with the group > (such as via a mailing list) is a noteworthy move. > > At a time when we have seen other founders (of multiple Free and Open > Source related initiatives) pushed out of the organizations they founded > (such as with Richard Stallman being compelled to resign from the Free > Software Foundation, or the attempts to remove Linus Torvalds from the > Linux Kernel – both of which happened within the last year) it seems worth > taking a deeper look at what, specifically, is happening with the Open > Source Initiative. > > I don't wish to tell any of you what you should think about this > significant move. As such I will simply provide as much of the relevant > information as I can, show the timeline of events, and reach out to all > involved parties for their points of view and comments. > > Raymond made the following statement, on February 27, 2020, on his personal > blog <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609>: > > “I – OSI’s co-founder and its president for its first six years – was > kicked off their lists for being too rhetorically forceful in opposing > certain recent attempts to subvert OSD clauses 5 and 6. This despite the > fact that I had vocal support from multiple list members who thanked me for > being willing to speak out. > > It shouldn’t be news to anyone that there is an effort afoot to change – I > would say corrupt – the fundamental premises of the open-source culture. > Instead of meritocracy and “show me the code”, we are now urged to behave > so that no-one will ever feel uncomfortable. > > The effect – the intended effect – is to diminish the prestige and autonomy > of people who do the work – write the code – in favor of self-appointed > tone-policers. In the process, the freedom to speak necessary truths even > when the manner in which they are expressed is unpleasant is being > gradually strangled. > > And that is bad for us. Very bad. Both directly – it damages our > self-correction process – and in its second-order effects. The habit of > institutional tone policing, even when well-intentioned, too easily slides > into the active censorship of disfavored views.” ... o The more such censorious self righteousness (as has been exercised against Torvalds, Stallman, now ESR, and many others) is given air time and publicity, the better - the true intentions of "petty nazis" or "snowflakes" or "liberal censors" or "exclude to include" hypocrites, is a good thing to expose and the sooner real people, not the moronic NPCs causing these problems, will learn to get a handle on communication, power, and the holding of authority. Lessons being learned ...
