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I think that's the great thing about voluntary association and freedom in that sense in general: you can associate with those who are like-minded and willing to

I think that's the great thing about voluntary association and freedom in that sense in general: you can associate with those who are like-minded and willing to work with you, and you don't have to/aren't forced to associate with those that disagree with you entirely - and those groups can't really get at you as easily. In open source, it's just a more pure version of that because you essentially have infinite "space" to spread out, and you can just clone stuff.

jascii 6y ago
Not directly relevant to this discussion, but I think it is worth pondering about: While I greatly enjoy the freedom that comes with voluntary association, I think it is worth realizing that it has few protections against the creation of toxic environments that exclude people/resources on non-technical issues. Our culture can be annoyingly straight-white-male oriented.