Fedora Does Not Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It's About Optics (Corporate Image)
Once upon a time people could visit this URL to witness the rapid death of "DEI" at Fedora (IBM). The room, the wiki, the video chats... they were pretty much reduced to zero over time. As we noted several times last year, there was also an elephant in "the room"; it was accessibility. See, they were very proud to say they were inclusive, but they used Google stuff (proprietary) and promoted technologies which excluded people with disabilities.
Towards the end (there are barely any blog posts about "DEI" at Fedora anymore; this one is the first in ages) almost nobody talked or participated. It was a cynical and facetious effort to paint IBM as some sort of adorable company with charitable initiatives.
Recently, "Wayland people" (many come from IBM) showed they don't care about blind people, they also had shown they don't care about poor people with "old" PCs (Fedora keeps pushing proposals that "cut the rope" on old games and hardware with BIOS), so any notion of inclusion is superficial and misleading.
If you want to be inclusive, then be inclusive. What IBM and Fedora do is more like eugenics. IBM has a long and dark history when it comes to eugenics. IBM would likely deem me a "target" because my wife and I aren't of the same race.
Remember this when IBM or Fedora (Red Hat) use words like "diversity" and "inclusion". Many people aren't gullible enough to fall for it. █
