I'm not going to link directly to the New Yorker, and they seem to have poisoned their html so archive dot is chokes on it. But I read this as confirmation that Linus got blackmailed.pic.twitter.com/acyBdiLvVm
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There were warnings almost three years ago that the activists quoted in that article were making blackmail runs at people like Linus. Most likely scenario, they got dirt on him and threatened to run it in a national magazine if he didn't bend the knee. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
"Ew, ESR, you can't trust that Nazi anarchist bigot crazy person!" Except it happened. The warning was about VA's old group, VA is prominently quoted in that article -- to people who've been paying attention, she's proudly waving Linus's bloody scalp.
The worst person you know warned you three years ago about Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with the Lead Pipe, and today she's waving a Lead Pipe around in the Conservatory and a national magazine is praising her for it. Welp.
Ugh. I mean, what do I know? I'm just a guy who has happily used/supported Linux since before 1.0, not a kernel developer. But I've never heard about Linus being anything other than an equal-opportunity asshole.
Yeah but equality is biased against women! That's the hilariously sad part -- they're asserting privilege.
Modern feminism requires that women be treated as weak and vulnerable, and thus need men to protect them. How that differs from the old misogynism I cannot say.
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