On 01/06/2016 02:50 PM, David Gibbons wrote:
On 1/6/2016 8:50 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
It provides a sense of confidence to those who are not confident
that they can come play in our playground and not be bullied.
That is what every single code of conduct is about. There are a
lot of very talented people in the FLOSS community that just
don't like to work in areas that don't have a code of conduct.
Linus's lack of a personal CoC certainly hasn't kept people away
from Linux.
Yes actually it has, perhaps not use but contribution (which is what we
are talking about). There was just recently a very high profile exit due
to his inability not to be a jackass. I personally know people that
won't go anywhere near Kernel development because of the toxic
environment that surrounds it.
JD
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