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For a second, don't distinguish between political and other views. The ideals of the developers certainly shape the product. - Apple: Elegant, powerful, not mu
by captainmuon 5y ago
For a second, don't distinguish between political and other views. The ideals of the developers certainly shape the product.
- Apple: Elegant, powerful, not much user choice but generally well-thought-out. And every bit is designed such that Apple keeps control of the platform.
- Unix hackers: Powerful command line interface, do one thing and do it well, KISS, adherence to tradtion (manpages etc.)
- Moxie Marlinspike: Concerned about user's privacy, thinks usability is paramount for adoption -> creates Signal
etc.
Now imagine an OS written by the Chinese communist party. Or a file-sharing program written by an anticapitalist group. Or a P2P marketplace by a drug cartel. Or a genealogy service created by white supremacists.
The (political) views of a creator are very relevant, if you believe the creation is used to further their goals!
- whywhywhywhy 5y ago>The (political) views of a creator are very relevant Agree completely because it shapes the actual intent of the creation. More just hinting if you could truly do an audit I'm not sure you'd be happy with what you found. For example, an operating system that requires all financial transactions that go through it has to take 30% to go into the wallet of the creators doesn't really seem particularly left leaning...
- astrange 5y agoThis is basically a stronger form of Conway's law, the weak form of which is definitely true (and should be respected when planning projects.)
- nemo44x 5y agoIt doesn’t really matter though since whatever is useful will be co-opted and used by the technocratic and atomizing system we live amongst. For example the creators of the first rockets wanted to go to the moon, that was their goal - which eventually happened. But not until well after it was co-opted to create ICBM’s.