What is the likely outcome of this? I'm guessing a lot of pull requests that never get merged. This is essentially the application of one very subjective morality over lexical sentiment and embodies the wider issue of offence.
Offence ultimately derives from intent and we, as the end user, don't have intent inferred to us while reading code. It may be misguided for a developer to use "faggot" or "bitch" as a placeholder variable, but these make no implication of the developers sentiment or any wider statement about such respective issues.
In reality, the better solution is don't use software you disagree with. If there is no better alternative, fork it and create a version you do agree with. That is the joy of open source.
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What is the likely outcome of this? I'm guessing a lot of pull requests that never get merged. This is essentially the application of one very subjective morality over lexical sentiment and embodies the wider issue of offence.
Offence ultimately derives from intent and we, as the end user, don't have intent inferred to us while reading code. It may be misguided for a developer to use "faggot" or "bitch" as a placeholder variable, but these make no implication of the developers sentiment or any wider statement about such respective issues.
In reality, the better solution is don't use software you disagree with. If there is no better alternative, fork it and create a version you do agree with. That is the joy of open source.