Companies will continue to support abusers, like Linus, as long as it's profitable for them.
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Many companies donated to the
@linuxfoundation and chose to pay Linus's salary. Unlike a 501(c)(3), it's a 501(c)(6), which allows members to direct how their contributions are used.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Each company listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#Members … could have said, no we don't want our contributes used to pay an abuser, but companies like
@IBM,@Google,@Microsoft,@Cisco, and@intel all continued to contribute and paid Linus to abuse people.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
I challenge each contributor to the
@linuxfoundation to pledge to pull funding if they pay any person that is abusive. When Linus comes back, or any other person they pay money to.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @encthenet @linuxfoundation
I appreciate the sentiment and think each should contribute as required by their conscience. But, what if we find out that not paying abusers is a major productivity hit?
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Replying to @mdhardeman @linuxfoundation
I'm fine with that. If you think one abuser is worth 50 or 100 contributors then I won't be apart of it and won't help out either. I'd much rather go to a community that didn't support/prop up abusers, let alone serial and damn proud of it abusers like Linus.
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Replying to @encthenet @linuxfoundation
That's fair. I don't support this. I merely note that leadership of some of the world's most successful large software projects seem to have often fit into this pattern. I find that interesting and wish I understood more of the causes and effects.
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Maybe this says more about the contributors than the leaders? That white males want to be the abusers, so contribute to abusive communities in the hopes of having their chance? (Completely off the cuff remark.)
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Replying to @encthenet @linuxfoundation
It's as valid a hypothesis as any other, I suppose. The trouble is that real rigorous study of the problem is necessarily sociology and yet there are few sociologists in the community, probably because few others in the community would give them any time or attention.
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