Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.
Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.
I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.
If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.
I seriously wonder if the death threats aren’t a false flag. Someone really wants to put more attention to this guy instead of people who have agency in actual decisions. Even the maintainers of repos that accepted his PRs should receive more attention than him.
I think it’s just a rage bait started by that guy only, but if the argument wasn’t so extremely niche it would get some momentum, like that dumb video about the Somali childcare of a month ago. Someone prominent on the right would retweet the guy crying that “the violent left are trying to kill meee!”. But I think the story will just fade away, in here and Reddit.