The published document thoroughly describes abuse in Open Technology Communities by managerial staff focused on fulfilling quotas for special snowflakes. The examples are stunning. GNOME hiring a literal shaman who sold flavored water as Executive Director and was Harvard graduate with zero commits during their supervision. Once fired, GNOME take on leave everyone hired by that person due to lack of any experience in coding other than "vibe coding". The inventor of Timsort, the sorting algorithm inside Python and Java and Android, got suspended three months for saying CoC enforcement could ruin careers.
The document deeply dives seeking correlation between narcissistic grandiosity with progressive activism (r=0.19-0.21). It also quotes bioleninism (I didn't know there is something like that in science) to prove the point that in administrative positions the lack of any background in field of IT leads to coalitions of "dead weight" staff.
Its not the CoCs that were the problem. It was the whole idea of "open software" that was nothing of the kind. If you have software controlled by a group who effectively exercises ownership rights over it, puts license obligations on people and controls what people do with it, that is the opposite of open software.
Cabal controlled software is not "open software" and not "free software". Never has been. Never will be.
yeah, the people pushing for cocs are the problem
having political activists obtain influence and power over technological projects is just terrible all around, the coc shit is just one aspect of it
