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A wise man once told me: "no politics at work". As time goes on, the value of that advice becomes more and more certain. There's no reason that libreboot needs
by castle-bravo 10y ago
A wise man once told me: "no politics at work". As time goes on, the value of that advice becomes more and more certain.
There's no reason that libreboot needs to be a political project. There are enough reasons to want our firmware to be free. We rely on our machines for our work, for our art, for our lives.
- icebraining 10y agoThere are enough reasons to want our firmware to be free. We rely on our machines for our work, for our art, for our lives. That's a political position as well. You can't avoid taking political positions in a public social environment, all you're doing is silently accepting the existing position.
- ticviking 10y agoOr declaring that this is not the time and space for those discussions.
- throwaway2048 10y agoDoing nothing is still a choice.
- icebraining 10y agoYou don't need discussions; distributing code is a political action by itself. The project is inherently political. Limiting discussions is just a power play.
- vfclists 10y agoThis is not a political issue unless you want to make it so. It is a purely economic issue brought about by commercial interest. The fact that merchants and financiers depend on politicians to pass the laws which make it criminal to reverse engineer or share/publicise knowledge derived from reverse engineering does not make it a political issue. You only have to Google 'site:news.ycombinator.com john deere' to see that it is an economic issue. Replacing your $1000 laptop may not be much of an economic issue for you, but your replacing or paying maintenance for your $500,000 combine harvester most certainly is.
- icebraining 10y agoEconomics is politics, and that's actually one of the more clear examples. But even if the farmers' actions were somehow non-political, as far as I know the main contributors of Libreboot are not farmers, nor is the Peers Community to which the project belong a trade association of farmers. It's clearly a project motivated by a political idea.
- Sunset 10y agoClaiming that everything is political is a political statement. Further, there's nothing wrong with choosing the accepted existing position.