04.12.2013, 22:54, "// ravi" <[email protected]>:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Darren DeRidder <[email protected]> wrote:"respect our wishes"? Really? After you call someone who speaks English as a second language an a-hole on your corporate blog and push one of the most valued contributors out of the node community?It is mildly amusing that Americans (not you) think the rest of the world needs to be administered a test on English as a foreign/second language, but the above seems to be said in seriousness. While I am respectful of the signal contributions made by said speaker, are you really saying that someone, who could put together full, grammatically correct, well constructed paragraphs of English here on the list and in that particular GitHub message, found a gender-neutrality change to be trivial *because* he found the English involved (the words “he” and “they”) foreign and ambiguous/confusing?The word “asshole”, without doubt, ruined a blog post that was otherwise carefully reasoned (in the most part).
it didn't ruin anything. That blog post has only one little mistake. The mistake was to write it.
Who cares about "he"/"they"? It isn't an issue, and it was never been. The issue in that in opensource it's customary to base all commits on technical reasons. That's when you're discussing code and think about whether it would be good to merge it or not. But Joyent guys just came and started discussing his personality (which is a red flag right away) and just ruined it all completely. That kind of corporate politics has no place in OSS community.
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