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I wonder is protestware as a concept is fine. It's a form of ads, just people pushing their opinion in front of everybody just because they can. Sure, everybod

I wonder is protestware as a concept is fine. It's a form of ads, just people pushing their opinion in front of everybody just because they can. Sure, everybody's against the war, but what if the message was a more controversial anti-this or pro-that topic - do we really want to have these messages popup during installation and even after?

alexb_ 5y ago
If a large project had "unpopular" opinions in the commit messages, it would be top of HN instantly and companies everywhere would be pressured into not using the project in the future. Software should do what you want, only what you want, and do that thing well. Political messages are horrible additions that accomplish nothing but isolate people and make free software look bad.