Re: FreeBSD Core Team Response to Controversial Social Media Posts

On Sun, 12 May 2019 03:16:22 +0200
Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd_at_quip.cz> wrote:

> FreeBSD Core Team Secretary wrote on 2019/05/10 03:24:
> > The FreeBSD Core Team is aware of recent controversial statements
> > made on social media by a FreeBSD developer.  We, along with the
> > Code of Conduct review committee, are investigating the matter and
> > will decide what action to take.  Both the Core Team and the
> > FreeBSD Foundation would like to make it clear that views shared by
> > individuals represent neither the Project nor the Foundation.  
> 
> 
> This is incredibly stupid and I am really sad to read things like
> this in the mailinglist of my favourite operating system (again).
> What will be next? Checking if developers do not smoke weed, drink 
> alcohol or have sex without condom?
> 
> "Be well, John Spartan"
> 
> What's wrong with this world?
> 
> I am from the country where totalitarian regime ruled for 40 years. I 
> was lucky to have seen freedom and lived freedom after the revolution 
> many years ago but now I am afraid that we have Thought Police even
> in FreeBSD community. I never thought I'd live to fear again to speak
> freely.

+1 here, from another country which transitioned from 45 years of harsh
totalitarian rule, through a brief period of relative freedom, to a more
subtle form of a (thought) police superstate we happily live in today.

Rest assured your worries about FreeBSD CoC enforcers are unfounded,
though.  Namely, last year several developers, including the one who is
now being "investigated", orchestrated a lengthy rant on an internal ML
targeting a population group based on race, sex, and sexual
inclination, while invoking on EU convention on human rights protecting
their right to do so.  Neither the CoC comitte nor the Core team found
that disturbing, probably as true believers to freedom of thought and
speech.  So, assuming they stick to their principles, I don't see why
would they intervene now, particularly given that the developer has
expressed his opinions outside of the project's MLs or other forums.

Marko