Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Framework Steps Into It Date: 21 Oct 2025 19:26:02 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <10cub7h$1cvsj$1@dont-email.me> <10d7uq8$3tcml$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uDEHLweMmVNzgv1m13ReggKl6t5+ooTRsgv5/WbpuK5WrSUEsW Cancel-Lock: sha1:f59urQo2Kdk8wl2lwEf5miPMa2U= sha256:HBRsfZ2cDKcUEZ2ZDHp0a5faBSWSXWGwtGgwPXZB9g8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76475 On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:37:27 +0100, Pancho wrote: > On 10/21/25 13:00, Borax Man wrote: > > >> Who the hell cares? People are sick and tired of this political >> rubbish. >> >> They are children, wanting others to make some fealty statements >> otherwise they cry. >> >> Frankly, if developers are going to get into a tizzy because others are >> not going to make subservient political statements that they want them >> t make, then they can just bugger off. If that means we see less >> pointless Rust re-writes of existing software, then so be it. >> >> We all see through this charade. They are political activists, trying >> to bully others into being politically active. >> >> >> > I don't mix much with young people, but it seems to me this kind of > stuff is over-represented in the Linux free software community.'' Vaguely related: I didn't attend but in the photos of Saturday's No Kings demonstration I saw what I thought was a surprising amount of gray fur. I wrote it off since this city has a lot of aging hippies. From comments across the country it seems boomers were over represented across the country. I'd have thought it was a young person thing.