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But that's obviously not what people mean when they criticize something as being "political". The negative connotations of the word include people having double
by TallGuyShort 6y ago
But that's obviously not what people mean when they criticize something as being "political". The negative connotations of the word include people having double standards based on identities or group affiliations, being disingenuous about one's actual values and motivations, abusing relationships and partnerships to further an often hidden agenda, etc.
- monocasa 6y agoCan you give examples of these hidden agendas? Most of the time I see people complaining, it's more from 'I don't understand why I have to abide by the community's values (plural) in order to submit code or otherwise get free labor out of them.'
- TallGuyShort 6y agoWell take, for instance, Microsoft's reputation of embrace, extend, extinguish. That's a perfect example. I don't think they're that bad any longer, but I used to work with a lot of Apache projects where people would vote against committers from another company that they happened to compete with, and have pretty flimsy explanations for why they didn't think they belonged in the community. Or people would refuse to engage on design discussions and then shoot down proposals - usually just on opposite sides of some corporate competition. That's beyond free labor - it's mixing corporate interests with community project governance, and it's contrary to what should be the inclusive and good-willed nature of non-profit open-source projects like that.