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I'm tired of the "check your privilege" crowd bringing their guilt mongering into everything. You know what I love about free software? It's ultimately judged
by shaftoe 10y ago
I'm tired of the "check your privilege" crowd bringing their guilt mongering into everything.
You know what I love about free software? It's ultimately judged on merits.
I use software everyday written by all kinds of people, many of whom I would otherwise have little in common with. I don't care about their personal lives, political opinions, or baggage. I care about what they've produced and vice versa. It's the ultimate level playing field.
Please keep the social justice fighting out of free software or you'll kill the openness that has built a worldwide ecosystem.
- ufo 10y agoI don't understand why trying to make the FOSS community more inclusive would kill its openness.
- vacri 10y agoI've seen a lot of hostility online against people with non-european names. The idea that open source contributors are measured solely on merit is something of a fantasy. The canonical example here is contributors with an Indian name - they face a lot of social flak regardless of merit. No, not every project does it, but the ecosystem itself is somewhat unfriendly to such people. > Please keep the social justice fighting out of free software What are you talking about? The FSF birthed this movement, and was functionally based on social justice issues. If you pay any heed at all to the 'four freedoms', that's definitively 'social justice fighting'.
- hackuser 10y ago> You know what I love about free software? It's ultimately judged on merits. If you like things judged on their merits, no doubt you are a strong, vocal opponent of any discrimination based on race, nationality, gender, sexuality, or anything else not related to merit.