<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 6:47 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Impugning motives openly in a public discussion tends to have a variety<br>
of poisonous effects,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Rick,</div><div><br></div><div>Using the loaded term "ethics" in the title of a group has the same poisonous effects on conversations, essentially suggesting that anyone who disagrees with the methods of the group are somehow "unethical".<br><br>I believe everyone understands the poisonous aspects of these types of conversation, and avoiding that type of poison destroying software communities is one of many reasons why the non-discriminatory clauses of the OSD exists.</div><div><br>After explaining these core problems and being ignored, I don't see why it is wrong to wonder if there is something different going on here than is being publicly claimed.</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>