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there's a healthy overlap between the people who think that open source licenses are unenforcable, and the people who think masks don't work. Its almost all ba
by ikiris 5y ago
there's a healthy overlap between the people who think that open source licenses are unenforcable, and the people who think masks don't work.
Its almost all based on "I wish", and not "these fact"
- kergonath 5y agoI haven’t run a full study, but I have found the opposite amongst people I know: a large overlap between the people who moan about their freedoms being taken away by vaccine mandates and those who moan about the ideological purity of Free Software. If you see things only in black and white and everything is a crusade, then you don’t care much about facts. I would guess that this is the result of the same mechanisms that prime a conspiracy theorist to see conspiracies everywhere.
- bonoboTP 5y agoRMS is definitely a hypermasker and covid-worrier.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoStallman is an a well known outlier, it's a definitely visible correlation that blue people hate free software.