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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:
A bit over 15 years ago, a speaker at a tech conference used a couple of slides that were inappropriately sexual given the conference's guidelines. Afterwards the speaker apologised, the organisers apologised, there were process improvements, and it shouldn't have been a big deal.
And then people decided that they needed to defend the speaker. Including someone who remains a well known senior Linux kernel developer at a large company.