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Of course, like anything, this is a problem of degrees. Numbers, severity, evidence, etc. It's pointless to extend any given decision to its logical extreme and
by happytoexplain 7y ago
Of course, like anything, this is a problem of degrees. Numbers, severity, evidence, etc. It's pointless to extend any given decision to its logical extreme and present that as some kind of evidence on whether or not the specific decision was justified.
- AndrewKemendo 7y agoIt's not a logical extreme at all. Chef-Sugar was a tiny library that did a very niche thing that wasn't even called in an ICE related project. In terms of degrees, this developer provided effectively zero support to ICE - but pulled out anyway. By the way, kudos to him, there aren't enough people who will stand on principle IMO. That said, playing the FOSS game means that by default you risk supporting people you don't like, that's kind of the whole point of the "Freedom" part of it. Free as in speech. Tons of major FOSS tools and libraries are used around the world by dictators and henchmen and unsavory people alike. Pick your favorite massive OSS project that you might have contributed to: Putty, Linux, OpenCV, Go, ROS, Elasticsearch, tar, Neo4j, MySQL etc.... and you'll have contributed some code that is used by some murderous regime somewhere. Do whatever you have to do to make it feel like you didn't support those with some tiny OSS contribution, but just recognize it's pretty arbitrary and own that.