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    4 years ago

    So my largest criticism of the article would be this part:

    Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University who has published research on both the far right and open source software communities. She says that “the dominant open source culture historically has been one of extreme misogyny, unfounded meritocracy, toxicity and abuse of everyone,” and that Smith is one of those resisting efforts to change that culture.

    I don’t think that this is a fair introduction to open-source culture, even though it is true.

    But otherwise I think the article is pretty good…