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When Python is Basically Run by a 'Microsoft-Friendly' Mole Who Ousts People That Actually Contributed a Lot to Python for Many Years

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 08, 2024

Girl against a background of stormy ocean

Removing some of the best people, not merely parachuted into the project in order to serve GAFAM (doing the dictators' biddings)

WE HAVE long discussed the Python project and the bureaucracy behind it. We also condemned Microsoft's interference in the project going back to 2007. It's not a new problem; it didn't start the moment Microsoft poached the founder, put its own people inside the board, and bribed the project repeatedly. It predates all of those things.

Our anonymous female reader (who can code and actually codes, unlike the women she speaks about) and our female writers aren't happy about what's happening inside Python. They don't view Deb's appointment in Python as a "win" for women; it's actually somewhat of an insult to those who code and contribute. Sometimes it seems like for women to get ahead in tech they need not code harder but find shortcuts or become unethical. That, in turn, gives them bad karma and a collectively ruinous stigma.

In the previous part we wrote about how Deb (no connection to Debian; it's doubtful and not likely she uses Free software) was violating CoCs to kick out innocent, long-serving men out of Python (which was new to her). Perhaps she already had some experience, having defamed men she had worked with to get ahead at Big Corporations' front groups, such as OIN and OSI. This is a very troublesome part of the "community" (or rather, actors and operatives that shoehorn enemies into the "village" in order to advance their careers and then move to the next village, repeating the modus operandi).

Incidentally, a couple of days ago Python was mentioned in "The "Code of Conduct" Must Die" (it's about other men who had contributed a lot to Python being suddenly removed for no good reason).

To some people it looks like Python is under attack and the people who do the attacking violate the very CoC (Code of Conduct) they claim to uphold.

Mowgli and Kaa The Snake: Python executive vs Python coder or contributor

In this case, the person who does the 'culling' inside Python was putting Microsoft's money on Karen's palm (a humongous salary while trampling on other women). It's quite the accomplishment... women attacking other women or making the OSI promote Microsoft's GitHub (proprietary) in exchange for huge Microsoft's bribes - money that was paid into the OSI's coffers, based on IRS disclosures, which are mandatory.

The way it looks to me, personally, what we're dealing with are opportunistic GAFAM operatives (de facto defectors) in "community organiser" (or "manager") clothing, speaking in a cartoon-like voice as if to sound cute and harmless whilst actively attacking or ruining innocent people's careers, especially the top contributors who keep a low profile and get stuff done, especially code, packaging, documentation etc. (not reaching out to Microsoft and raising money from Pentagon contractors).

To set the record straight, Deb is the person who helped raise bribes from Microsoft for the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). She did this repeatedly (for two years in a row), despite public criticism and backlash, and they even boasted about it! She basically onboarded Microsoft at SFC (while they were defaming the FSF's founder) and then ran OSI in its worrisome transition... into a Microsoft front group (while constantly attacking the founder of the FSF).

So these are the people who now govern or act as stewards of the Python language?

Truly worrying.

Why stands to benefit from this?

But who am I to say this? Talking against Microsoft is "sexist", so don't take it from me. Take it from a woman who has long observed this. She is angry about this. "And I’m going to say that being someone who really supported freedoms and open source when I found out," she said, "Deb was the director of the python software foundation I was extremely disappointed that her manipulations in obtaining such a position, worked."

"She, Molly, Vicki And Karen (among others) really manipulated the system and people through volunteerism and positions in certain Linux non-profits."

"I believe the community thought they were cut from the same cloth as myself, Wendy Seltzer, Robin Gross and others who care about the community and freedom. However, that was not the case. You can see a certain collaboration between Karen and Molly, as well as Deb and Vicki. Deb denied being a part of the Linux foundation. I was at an embedded Conference in San Diego, where she was a part of the program. She was holding a robot and I wanted to see if I could ask her how many servos she was using or more information, but I didn’t have the chance. I imagine her response would be something like… what’s a servo!"

"The fact that this group of women tried to cancel RMS, manipulated OSI elections and positions, manipulated the Debian project, canceled ESR, manipulated conference speakers by volunteering to evaluate call for papers, and who knows how many other nefarious acts…"

"How would anyone hire them for any executive position or any position in the community whatsoever?"

"There are people out there who know the lengths these bad players would go to move up into positions, cancel anyone who would expose them - so they wield their Code of Conduct as a weapon."

"It’s very disappointing."

Guess who the corporate media makes famous. Those whose actions (or agenda) serve the sponsors of that media.

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