[LCA2015-Chat] Fwd: #IStandWithLinus

[Ryan Stuart]

This seems to be where it all began ->
https://twitter.com/tolbiac110/status/556006484832976898. In particular,
the link in that tweet.

Cheers

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Amanda Jackson <
amanda.jackson at lca2015.linux.org.au> wrote:

>
> Because I'm a bit OCD about these things... I had to go look to find the
> start of the thread.  The recent thread started with @tolbiac110
> <https://twitter.com/tolbiac110> on the 16th Jan, so perhaps DM him.
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Lana Brindley <mail at lanabrindley.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 19/01/15 11:49, Russell Coker wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>  I'm trying to work out if the #istandwithlinus hashtag grew out of his
>> appearance at LCA directly, or if it happened indirectly through the
>> arstechnica article. I also can't tell if @shanley was reacting to the LCA
>> appearance, or something else. Anyone got any clues? (hoping to grow a blog
>> post out of this, if I discover I have something important to say about it).
>>
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