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		preommr on May 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language Branching projects and diversity is always good. But the reasons for this one are laughable. Formalising a trademark policy and a guy getting demoted to regular speaker insetad of keynote speaker? Seriously? People are screaming fascism over this?

denton-scratch on May 30, 2023 [–]

> a guy getting demoted to regular speaker insetad of keynote speaker?

I don't think the issue was who the keynote speaker should be; as far as I can tell, it's the (lack of) process over that decision.

/me has no skin in this game.

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