From 37f277d9c7348f616f285c582fe26166f57522fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Babayaga Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:46:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] The End of Gangland :) --- ref/top-10-lies.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ref/top-10-lies.md b/ref/top-10-lies.md index 58ed8eb..c932f67 100644 --- a/ref/top-10-lies.md +++ b/ref/top-10-lies.md @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ The core team published a coordinated "Warning" article targeting a 8-year veter ### Analysis of the Smear -This behavior demonstrates a shift from an "Open Source Community" to a "Protected Brand." In healthy engineering circles, technical claims (e.g., "machines are inefficient") are refuted with data and testing. In this ecosystem, they are instead met with character assassination, blacklisting, and "Report This User" campaigns. Alarmingly, this hostility has been specifically directed at vulnerable community members—including a 65-year-old woman and a disabled retired software engineer—who had invested years of resources and support. It becomes evident that objective field data, collected over years of customer interaction, is perceived not as constructive feedback, but as a direct threat to the organization's extractive business model. Furthermore, this culture of targeted harassment has drawn public support from analogous organizations like Open Source Ecology, reflecting a troubling, broader trend in certain hardware projects where noble volunteer goals are used as a shield to justify censorship, discriminatory behavior, and the humiliation of dedicated contributors. +This behavior demonstrates a shift from an "Open Source Community" to a "Protected Brand." In healthy engineering circles, technical claims (e.g., "machines are inefficient") are refuted with data and testing. In this ecosystem, they are instead met with character assassination, blacklisting, and "Report This User" campaigns. Alarmingly, this hostility has been specifically directed at vulnerable community members—including a 65-year-old woman and a disabled retired software engineer—who had invested years of resources and support. Both have been not only repeatedly attacked over the years but also tricked out of their life savings due to massive abuse, defamation and corruption, as other investors. It becomes evident that objective field data, collected over years of customer interaction, is perceived not as constructive feedback, but as a direct threat to the organization's extractive business model. Furthermore, this culture of targeted harassment has drawn public support from analogous organizations like Open Source Ecology, reflecting a troubling, broader trend in certain hardware projects where noble volunteer goals are used as a shield to justify censorship, discriminatory behavior, and the humiliation of dedicated contributors. ***