Context: coreboot, libreboot, and GNU Boot are projects creating open-source firmware for booting laptops etc. One of these projects is lead by Leah Rowe (pictured below). Need I say more?
This post about GNU Boot sending a C&D to libreboot is currently on the front page of Orange Site. They're still arguing over the details, but it seems to boil down to a power struggle over the project and the name libreboot, with a lot of spicy allegations (read the thread for "corrections"):
It turns out that this power struggle has been on-going for SEVEN FRICKING YEARS. libreboot was originally a GNU project, until Leah threw a tantrum when one of her fellow s was fired for "sticking up for herself". Her resignation letter was extremely dramatic and generated some fun threads at the time:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/54by6w/leah_rowe_drama_queen_pretending_there_is/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329287
A few months later, Leah declared peace with GNU and the Free Software Foundation:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/639ob1/libreboot_no_longer_opposes_the_gnu_project_or/
In March 2021 she was accused of performing a coup after kicking several people out of the project without explaination.
Later that month, she came out in defence of toe-cheese eater Richard Stallman after the latter made some controversial comments about Jeffrey Epistein and the definition of r*pe:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/17/mit-scientist-emails-epstein
https://web.archive.org/web/20210401003350/https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646048
Edit: KiwiFarms thread on her from 2018 (requires Tor):
https://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/threads/leah-rowe-francis-rowe-libreleah.47528/
Highlights include the crowdfunded neovagina which prevented her from shipping the ThinkPads people had ordered, as well as a guide for ordering hormones online:
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"As a trans person" [nonsense victim screed] volume 3001
Edit: look at this vintage 2017 post where people discuss the merits of "cisgender" and obsessing about your s*x life in technical forums
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/54by6w/leah_rowe_drama_queen_pretending_there_is/d80uuqw/
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They just can't help themselves, it's a darn cult. Criticising any train is seen as an attack on them all.
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Well you have to understand, any criticism stems solely from transphobia and not because of their actions/beliefs/behaviors
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Total allegiance or death while they try to compare your basic dissent to a new idea to nazi Germany
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Maybe if many of the people criticizing trans people didn't say anything about their trans status this wouldn't be as much the case![:marseywrongthonk: :marseywrongthonk:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseywrongthonk.webp)
Basically the same reason why criticizing islam died down, couldn't do so without getting somebody "kill all sandBIPOCs" in support when you did.
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