I'm not entirely sure that it's to the advantage of an operating system development project to have free speech as an ideal.
At the very least, there's the empirical argument that the major operating systems are overwhelmingly developed by private corporations, and you can be sure that if a developer said "hey, this new hire is getting his white supremacist followers on Twitter to attack me," the new hire wouldn't be working on that project very much more. And we generally don't find the price of this less-than-free speech too much to pay.
Can you explain why it helps develop a better net installer or Linux emulation layer to be able to use slurs against fellow developers?
At the very least, there's the empirical argument that the major operating systems are overwhelmingly developed by private corporations, and you can be sure that if a developer said "hey, this new hire is getting his white supremacist followers on Twitter to attack me," the new hire wouldn't be working on that project very much more. And we generally don't find the price of this less-than-free speech too much to pay.
Can you explain why it helps develop a better net installer or Linux emulation layer to be able to use slurs against fellow developers?