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Python Software Foundation is 'Cancel Culture' Rehomed

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2024

=> [Meme] Python Knows Its Bosses | DeVault "Closes Down His Mailing Lists Every Time There's a Scandal" and Also Censors Messages

=> HTTPS image: Rope

Some regimes hang people on cranes, even for non-crimes; others do it digitally (in Web pages).

=> ↺ HTTPS: even for non-crimes | HTTPS: in Web pages

For those who don't know or already forgot, Nicholson is an integral part of the anti-FSF mob (predating the first petition to behead the FSF) which sought to rewrite history and redo definitions (watering down or washing away freedom). A site funded by Microsoft and its Linux Foundation did an advertisement for her two days ago:

=> HTTPS: integral part of the anti-FSF mob | HTTPS: predating the first petition to behead the FSF | funded by Microsoft | HTTPS: Linux Foundation

=> HTTPS image: Why Beginning Developers Love Python

AT the end of last year a well-informed woman told us that Nicholson had been rewarded for her cancel campaigns. She campaigns not for freedom but for those who try to hijack the movement and then water it down, e.g. promoting coexistence with software patents and Microsoft openwashing. In Nicholson's case, she spent 2 years raising Microsoft money for SFC, which had also attacked the FSF. Her loyalty is with whoever gives money - big money, e.g. OIN, not freedom-oriented NGOs.

=> Nicholson had been rewarded for her cancel campaigns | HTTPS: promoting coexistence with software patents and Microsoft openwashing

The other day a reasonable person told us: "I don't think you've covered this yet, so let me point you at https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer_suspended_coc/. If you do some deep digging into this stuff, it looks like the Python Software Foundation, and specifically its Code of Conduct enforcement committee, are running their very own Court of Star Chamber."

=> ↺ HTTPS: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer_suspended_coc/

As per what we covered before, Microsoft had also infiltrated Python's Board of Directors and paid the founder of Python a lot of money to shill Microsoft's proprietary software and mass surveillance.

=> HTTPS: infiltrated Python's Board of Directors

Python isn't grassroots and it doesn't really tolerate grassroots. Unless you work for a company like Microsoft or Google (second home of Microsofters), Python does not care for what you have to say - after all, you are not a sponsor! - and may even ban you.

=> second home of Microsofters

It's not trivial to prove the true motivations of Nicholson (short of mind-reading), but the likelihood that it's self-serving greed/ego is there. Maybe she'll work for Microsoft next. Maybe a Microsoft front group. █

=> Maybe a Microsoft front group | HTTPS: █

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