Propaganda, Red Hat-style

It's always fun to see that those, who consider themselves to be the "righteous" happily use methods that they accuse their opponents of using - all for "the good cause". Even more fun it is how they use a different jargon for both, e.g. labeling all criticism aimed at them as "backlash", so they can simply dismiss it without exposing their weak underbelly.

I know Sam as a man who does its own research and occasionally touching a nerve. I don't see anything wrong with that. If people like you, you're probably not doing your job, hence the PR chicks copying and pasting press releases.

Yes, PLEASE throw in the sexist label. I like the smell of a good Godwin in the morning, and it once more shows how feeble all your arguments really are.

Bottom line is, the Linux "leadership" is so infested with PC, it's bound to split the community one more time sooner or later. The silent crowd who forms the core of the FOSS movement has little to do with PC, they just want to write good code. Note all these little programs that make up the bulk of what we use are made by tiny groups of one or two developers who have little to do with the political agenda of these squeaky clean "community leaders" who probably never wrote one decent line of code.

Yes, communists, whale meat eaters, fascists, racists, misogynists, devil worshipers may have their own FOSS projects and are consequently part of our community. I'm not falling into any of these categories, but the mere definition of FOSS dictates that they are. The FOSS community does not fall within the lines of any political agenda. Deal with it!

Or are we falling into the old trap of the "true FOSS community" and the "faux FOSS community" again?

You may note I have avoided the word "journalist" altogether - it's simply been abused too much. Note that too many "journalists" don't do any original research and don't know (let alone act) on the ethical guidelines of a journalist. So don't get me started.