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

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 ?

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.

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

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.