@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io @evgandr@bsd.cafe @tfb@bsd.cafeThen, I really can't understand why there are a lot of discussions about that e-mail? Every human being who uses electronic devices with Li-Ion accumulator already materially benefitting from slavery.
And the answer was not only that they would accept it but that they would be ethically obliged to accept it. So in fact they not only think it's acceptable to tolerate slavery, they think it's wrong to oppose slavery.
After reading the Eli answers in that thread I came to the completely another conclusion — Eli thinks that making ethical and moral decisions inside of organization not designed to make such decision (but to develop Emacs) will destroy it. Not accepting code from a slave — doesn't change anything, especially in the slave's destiny (things may change only if
#Emacs dev team will have tons of money, personal army and/or Nintendo-style lawyers) — but opens a door to further community separation: "from whom is ethically correct to accept patches, and who is prohibited from making commits)". When usually, in my days, the open source community accepted patches from everyone — if you able to write good code and do some teamwork, then you are welcome.
And, my 50 cents to it — I also don't understand why it is necessary to have and articulate some views (ethical, or moral, or whatever)? E.g. for some events I simply haven't any position, I just don't think about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
