The main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide. That took almost all of their energy for the last year and they ended up quitting.

▲ xattt 14 hours ago | parent [-]

   > The main developer was also the target of a harassment campaign from a place that has pushed other targets to straight up suicide.

Is this the Torvalds/Hector dispute that comes on the Google AI summary, or was this a three-letter agency type of harassment faced by Aaron Swartz?

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gpm 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Neither actually... It was an anti trans/kiwi farms brigade...

The Torvalds dispute probably came about in part because of defensive behavior triggered this brigade but was really unrelated.

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alright2565 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anti-trans hate.

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ggljejejj 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Trans hate.

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OJFord 12 hours ago | parent [-]

GP definitely meant the same thing, i.e. 'hate [that is] anti-transsexualism' to your 'hate [against] transsexualism'.

	▲	nrabulinski 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		FYI, transsexual is an outdated term, with transgender being generally preferred instead :)