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The tech sector has almost never not been politicized, damn, are kids these days forgetting how much open source was fought for and defended?

• pgeorgi 6y ago
  Not forgetting, they weren't there yet
  • wizzwizz4 6y ago
    Neither was I. I remember. Youth is no excuse to be ignorant of recent history.
• raxxorrax 6y ago
  I remember that they fought for freedoms, not for corporate compliance.
• MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  To channel RMS: The political concern there is Free Software. Open Source isn't a political movement, it's an approach to software development that has similar ideas on software licensing.
• j-krieger 6y ago
  Open Source is not influenced by political factors. Influencing factors are almost entirely economical, with the exception being decisions by lawmakers. I'd rather they kept politics and so-called fights against racism out of Software, because they were never problematic there to begin with. The terms master and slave for example are only in bad taste because people make them to be.