It’s an interesting read, but one line kind of bothered me:
Perhaps the most amazing thing is that on an anonymous, no-holds-barred space on the Internet, there were no hate or racist symbols at all.
That’s not true actually. Although none seem to have shown up in the end result, there were quite a few attempts to get racist symbols in the mix.
One example is the Tux Penguin. Below that it says “GNU / Linux”, but earlier on it said “GNU + Linux”, which had to be changed because assholes were constantly trying to convert that plus sign to a swastika.
I’m sure there were several other similar occurrences that were beaten down by the works of better people.
