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Free software is explicitly a political movement. It is a mistake to assume everything done within work hours is apolitical.
by wz1000 10y ago
Free software is explicitly a political movement.
It is a mistake to assume everything done within work hours is apolitical.
- infodroid 10y agoThe problem here isn't the politics, it's the mission creep. Libreboot has clear techno-political goals, to free our hardware from the shackles of BIOS and UEFI. It wasn't created to serve as a vehicle to protest a case of alleged sexual discrimination against a friend in a different project. There are many ways to protest at perceived injustice, but I don't think derailing a volunteer project to do that is good for the movement as a whole.
- _pmf_ 10y ago> Free software is explicitly a political movement. Yes, but it's a specific political theme. It's not a blank cheque for instrumentalizing your FOSS work for every topic you personally find important.