IMO, this is idiocy. As far as I know, he works alone and does little
more than maintain the Linux kernel. He doesn't employ people in general
much less women and if any contribute to the work, they do so from the
comfort of their home away from the guy. This should be a strong
indication of how credible feminists are.
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Feminists in tech have been staging attempted “honey traps” to frame
prominent male software developers for sexual assault, according to
explosive claims on the blog of Eric S. Raymond, a pioneer of the open
source movement. In allegations that will rock the world of software
development, prominent targets included Linus Torvalds, creator of the
Linux kernel.
Raymond quoted excerpts from an online chat with a trusted source, who
told him that the Ada Inititiative, a recently-discontinued feminist
advocacy group in tech, was trying to “collect scalps” by concocting
charges of attempted sexual assault against male software developers.
The source told Raymond that the “MO” of the feminists was to “get alone
with the target, and then immediately report attempted sexual assault.”
The source said he had stopped mentoring female developers over fears
that they might fabricate such charges.
In another explosive claim, the source also alleged that Linus Torvalds,
the renowned creator of the Linux kernel, perhaps the most famous
example of open source software, is a top target of the Ada Initiative.
“Linus is never alone at any conference,” claimed the source. “This is
not because he lets fame go to his head and likes having a posse around.
They have made multiple runs at him.”
Raymond, who is a renowned figure in the open source community, strongly
vouched for the trustworthiness of his source, telling readers that he
had been “well-informed and completely trustworthy in the past. He added
that another “regular” on his blog had also been present for the
conversation.
“The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or
senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a
technical conference,” wrote Raymond on his blog. “Try to avoid even
being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a ‘women in tech’
advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.”
Raymond’s blog post, which can be read in full here, goes on to
recommend an attitude of “collective guilt” and “scepticism” towards the
claims of feminists in tech.
‘They have made multiple runs at him.’ Just let the implications of that
sink in for a bit. If my source is to be believed (and I have found him
both well-informed and completely trustworthy in the past) this was not
a series of misunderstandings, it was a deliberately planned and
persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob.
Linus hasn’t spoken out about this; I can think of several plausible and
good reasons for that. And the Ada Initiative shut down earlier this
year. Nevertheless, this report is consistent with reports of SJW
dezinformatsiya tactics from elsewhere and I think it would be safest to
assume that they are being replicated by other women-in-tech groups.
(Don’t like that, ladies? Tough. You were just fine with collective
guilt when the shoe was on the other foot. Enjoy your turn!)
I’m going to take my source’s implied advice. And view ‘sexual assault’
claims fitting this MO with extreme skepticism in the future.
If true, these claims will rock the world of software development, not
to mention the wider tech community, which is suffering under the yoke
of diversity campaigners levelling bogus charges of sexism at companies
and individuals and pestering companies to improve their diversity
credentials.
Discontent at the behaviour of feminists in tech has already been
spreading in the open source community thanks to the feminist-led
introduction of controversial codes of conduct for developers on some
open source projects. But these new claims elevate feminists in tech
from the controversial to the potentially criminal.
The claims of Raymond’s source could also provide an explanation for why
so many tech diversity activists, such as the innovation expert Vivek
Wadhwa, and the Puerto Rican software developer Roberto Rosario, have
been mercilessly set upon by tech feminists.
If feminists are trying to frame software developers for sexual assault,
it would be important for them to occupy the chief positions in the
“diversity movement” to ensure the incidents were followed by sufficient
outrage across the movement. Prominent diversity activists who are not
subscribed so such nefarious methods could therefore present a problem.
Despite widespread discussion in the industry of the explosive claims on
Raymond’s blog, and the stature of Raymond within software development,
other tech news outlets – normally champing at the bit to report on
diversity issues – have so far been curiously silent on this story.
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