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"When people tell you who they are, listen." We choose to disassociate open source from anything to do with RMS and FSF.
by angry_octet 6y ago
"When people tell you who they are, listen."
We choose to disassociate open source from anything to do with RMS and FSF.
- smsm42 6y agoWell, you told who you are, then. Virtue signalling is more important to you than the work done by the open source community and the FSF, and you'd gladly destroy the latter for a chance of the former. OK, listened.
- angry_octet 6y agoDo you realise that every time you use terms like "woke" and "virtue signalling" you are, in fact, virtue signalling? If open source could only be done by sexual abusers and misogynists it would indeed be sad.
- smsm42 6y agoNo, I do not realize that because it is not true. I am expressing my opinion, not trying to fit within some cultural mold that requires of me performative actions where the only purpose is to demonstrate my allegiance to "right" people and my non-association with "this kind of people". When I use the term "woke", I mean people who call themselves this term, or are functionally and ideologically equivalent to those people. I didn't invent this term, I don't like it particularly, but it came to identify a specific group of people with specific views and action patterns, so I use it. And I am completely sure when I use it, you know who and what I mean. So using it is an efficient communication practice. > If open source could only be done by sexual abusers This is an extremely wrong "if" which nobody actually claimed before you. By implying that your opponents said something like that, you are lying. Do not do that. > it would indeed be sad. It would be, but it's not because your initial assumption is false. What is currently sad instead is that you have to resort to falsities to advance your point. Or maybe not - maybe it's just a sign you have nothing better in your quiver.