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On Friday, following comments made by Linux legend Linus Torvalds about diversity in the open source development community, a new Linux fork went online at Github, apparently to mock diversity advocates. Dubbed ToleranUX, the fork, created by a one-day-old Github account called The Feminist Software Foundation, was announced with a lengthy diatribe full of over-the-top mockery of feminist and diversity movements within the tech sector.
The fork's introductory text included a quote from Shanley Kane, founder of tech and culture essay publisher Model View Culture, that expressed disapproval of Torvalds' statements made at an Auckland open source conference on Thursday. Having no affiliation with the anonymous FSF group, Kane searched for the group's origins and found its creators discussing the joke fork at the image board site that resembles the likes of 8chan. (Kane declined to comment to Ars about this story.)
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