Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:06:42 -0700 >openSUSE Unable to Find Board Candidates After Banning Conservatives > Correlation doesn't imply causation. But wait: Did OpenSUSE ban conservatives at all? A web search on the two terms "opensuse" and "conservatives" brought up over links of which over 80% either were by Lunduke or referenced Lunduke. The remainder either said nothing about politics or were, how should I put it, too tiny to be credible. So this is all a tempest in a teacup. Lunduke has a good thing going for him. You've got to admit, he's pretty clever. This formerly credible Linux guy sees well, we'll call them conservatives, whose beliefs are all consuming and matters of faith. Lunduke then "reports" on what he calls liberalization or woke in certain Linux communities, telling all who will listen that he reports what nobody else has the guts to. LOL, it's not guts, it's either not true, or it's so dam minor that nobody reporting on *Linux*, as opposed to politics, gives a flying flamingo. Here's an interesting take on Lunduke: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/muc18q/whats_the_deal_with_bryan_lunduke/ Now those of you who have known me for more than a week know that I always call out fallacies in debates, and I'm sure you recognize my discussion of Lunduke as an Ad hominem fallacy. Just because he's usually wrong doesn't mean he's wrong about this particular thing. However, when time and time again, he's almost the sole source of a viewpoint, and the viewpoint always has the same agenda, I think we should think twice before passing on his viewpoint. I found no supporting evidence for this "OpenSuSE banning conservatives" thing. On a personal note, I don't like him contaminating the Free Software ecosystem with American politics. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss