What the heck is all this nonsense?? Nobody was "fired". WTF is that all about? The Apache Software Foundation is comprised of 99.9% volunteers. Some of those volunteers are put into a decision-making position -- added to a Project Management Committee (PMC).

All that happened was that the Foundation Board removed one person from a PMC.

That's it, people. No firing. No censoring. One simple change of "who get's to decide" on that project.

And do any of you know of his behavior over the past five years? On the private backchannels? Hmm? Yah. Didn't think so. Don't get all judgmental when you don't even know the history. When you hear just *one* side of the story. Simple answer is that the other side of the story is "no reason to explain a minor decision about altering a PMC roster". And definitely do not talk about a person's behavior, in public.

Get off the high horse. The Apache Software Foundation still has 9000 other volunteers and 200+ other PMCs doing incredible work. One dude does some unwelcome shit on internal lists, and y'all go crazy. Lighten up, and find another topic to rage about.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

Everybody in that issue, except for three, .. were part of our coordinated effort. Two people threw in comments that we had to delete (and if you look closely, are in the history). The third was likely aware, and his several comments supported our ruse, so they remained.

Our various tweets, including the two from @TheASF were (of course) coordinated along with the movement on the issue.

It was about a dozen of us, spanning around 14 hours. Many April Fool's pranks are "fire and forget". Keeping it *live* was our key. Many people, many voices, and many hours.

Hope you enjoyed :-)