[LCA2015-Chat] #IStandWithLinus

[Kye Russell]

Not everybody agrees with you, I hate to break it to you. You aren't going to get the echo chamber that you're looking for.

The people that I talked to after Linus's Q&A (both random attendees and prominent figures) were under the impression that his comments were misconstrued and misunderstood by s vocal minority.

My point is that you're going to start a flame war in this thread. Nobody wants that, so we should just quit it now and leave it at Twitter where it belongs.

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> On 19 Jan 2015, at 2:49 pm, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, sio at tesser.org wrote:
>>> Now inspired by the #lca2015 discussion there's a #IStandWithLinus
>>> discussion which has more than a bit of overlap with #GamerGate.
>> 
>> I wish I'd had the foresight to not open that. -shudder-
> 
> One thing that's interesting to note is that "gamers" are saying things like 
> "Bloggers who have produced NOTHING feel qualified to criticize the open 
> source community?".  I really doubt that the GamerGate community includes a 
> single person who has made any contribution to Linux comparable to Matthew 
> Garrett.
> 
> A significant portion of #IStandWithLinus is about attacking Shanley.  I think 
> it's noteworthy that they spend more effort attacking a woman than actually 
> doing what they claim to be doing and defending Linus.
> 
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