[Philpax]

This post is cringe. There's simply no other word to describe it.

[politelemon]

The audience interaction was pretty cringe too and unnecessarily advertising/antagonising. It's bad all around.

[Ukv]

This whole issue seems frivolous. That she used a MacBook for this presentation doesn't mean she "can't be bothered to figure out how to run FreeBSD".

> I wonder why a woman like Kim McMahon was hired by the FreeBSD Foundation to begin with.

Her experience, listed in paragraph two, I'd assume is one factor.

[tptacek]

This is real dumb. It's a marketing person giving a talk about the outreach work the FreeBSD Foundation is doing, mostly not involving desktop work at all, and this person is angry that she's not running FreeBSD on her laptop. I would think she was less competent if she was doing that.

It may very well be that the Foundation's marketing strategy is bad. Certainly, I'm not predisposed to respect marketing-communications work from people who have been doing it in tech since the 1990s. But "Kim McMahon can't even be bothered to figure out how to run FreeBSD on a laptop in order to present a simple slideshow Hypocrisy is a strong word, but I am sorry, this is pathetic" is cringe.

What "politics" are even involved here? The word appears only in the headline.

[talldayo]

Face it - FreeBSD has been taken over by corpos for years. The open source community tried warning them, but no, they never listened.

[readthenotes1]

Is that Kim is a woman part of the complaint (that she was hired for diversity signalling), or just that Kim is not a FreeBSD user ?