violini
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
Although they didn't immediately specify the reason for the ban, to their credit the GitHub support person did explain what had happened when I appealed and the ban was lifted.
I used Linus just as an example of a very high-profile and widely beloved open source leader, to contrast this relatively unknown developer.
Though, now I think on it, some of the words he used in the past on the mailing list are considered "-ism" level offensive by some people today: "dumb", "retarded", etc.
Hopefully no cancellations incoming for these historical word-mishaps.
e.g. might it apply some weighting to the phrase?
Additionally, I wonder, looking at that prompt, maybe he was banned for beastiality.
For example, if Linus Torvalds turned out to be a racist or sexist or homosexist or transexist, would his Linux repository (https://github.com/torvalds/linux) be hammered? Would he be removed from the Linux project somehow?
My first assumption on encountering a table field with a standalone "n" would be that it's an abbreviation of "no". So I'm surprised people are assuming so strongly here that this is instead code for a racist word. This is quite a harsh accusation, given the lack of evidence.
It will be quite embarrassing all round if this just turns out to be a run-of-the-mill copyright strike, or similar.