The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.
ESR’s blog post goes on to back up this conclusion with IRC logs from one anonymized source that nasty women are all around trying to destroy him and other self-aggrandizing free software/open source shitlords through false claims of sexual assault. The comment thread on the post is an amazing cavalcade of other mens rights assholes who followed through links from terrible websites such as Phoronix and Breitbart. Surprisingly, the comment thread is a little bit better on the Phoronix post where people call out Michael Larabel on linking to ESR’s garbage as if it were fact.
ESR calls this an attempt by women to “… smear and de-legitimize the Linux community (and, by extension, the entire open-source community) in order to render it politically pliable.” ESR is the one who has smeared the Linux community. He has threatened harm to other developers, by all accounts is a terrible developer, and a racist who takes credit for coining the term open source when it was actually invented by Christine Peterson.
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