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On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 17:43 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> Why? We have no way to verify that provided names are valid or that |
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> provided ID's are valid. At least in my jurisdiction such |
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> information collected can't be used for legal action or protection |
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> without following established government-assisted verification |
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> procedure. In other jurisdictions similar problems may and will |
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> arise. |
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'Perfect is the enemy of good'. Claiming that you can't be 100% sure |
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that someone's giving his real name doesn't imply that everyone is using |
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fake names. Or that it makes no sense to use them. |
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> Additional problem is personal data collection, it is |
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> restricted or heavily regulated in many countries. One can't just |
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> demand to show an ID via electronic means without following |
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> complicated data protection procedures which are likely to be |
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> incompatible between jurisdictions. |
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Do you have any proof of that, or are you just basing your comments |
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on the common concept of misunderstanding GDPR and extending it to match |
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your private interest? |
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> So the real name requirement gives us no real protection from |
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> possible cases, but creates real and serious problems by kicking |
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> active developers and contributors from further contributions. |
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> NP-Hardass is not the only one. |
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Do you have any proof of that? As far as I'm concerned, we're pretty |
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clear that NP-Hardass can't contribute to Gentoo, and that his previous |
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contributions shouldn't have been accepted in the first place (and why |
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Trustees agreed to them is another problem). Are you going to take |
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legal and financial responsibility if his employer claims copyright to |
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his contributions? And if you say yes, are you going to really take it |
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or go with the forementioned attitude that we can't legally force you |
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to? |
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> I invited some gifted people with |
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> high quality out-of-tree work to become contributors or developers, |
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> but due to hostile attitude towards anonymous contributors they |
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> can't join. And people want to stay anonymous for good reasons, |
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> because they are engaged with privacy oriented development. |
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This is a very vague statement that sounds like serious overstatement |
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with no proof, aimed purely to force emotional reaction to support your |
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proposal. If you really want to propose something meaningful, I'd |
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really appreciate if you used real evidence to support it rather than |
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vague claims. |
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> We are loosing real people, real contributions and real community. |
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> What for? For solving imaginary problems with inappropriate tools. |
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Thank you for telling us that copyright is an imaginary problem. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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