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Most social / economic critique is steeped within the system of its focus, which doesn't negate the critique.
by 49531 8y ago
Most social / economic critique is steeped within the system of its focus, which doesn't negate the critique.
- mikestew 8y agoI think it negates the critique because one has defined a different level or participation for oneself than what is allowed to those being critiqued. When Microsoft has any hand in the activities of I. C. E., that's bad. But if I add to Microsoft's business either by participating in their other activities (e. g., GitHub) or adding to a network effect, that's okay? Perhaps it's an heavy-handed version of "clean hands", but I see hypocrisy in saying, "these are bad people and we do not want to associate with them...unless we need publicly-accessible source control."
- lliamander 8y agoAnd I'm sure people criticize twitter on twitter all the time (likewise for youtube). I think the licensing change was foolish, and I wouldn't hold it against MS if they decided to kick the Lerna project off of Github because of this. Hypocrisy (if that is even what this is) is not the worst aspect of this change. What's wrong here is that this kind of licensing (if it became widespread) would result in a legal minefield that would destroy the open source ecosystem.