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> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology They did have a strong ideology a
by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology
They did have a strong ideology and they worked towards building the world they wished to see. Not by breaking existing things to virtue signal their support for "the current thing"
- zucker42 5y agoYeah, but that means the problem is in fact protestware and not "ideology" in some vague sense.
- iaml 5y agoAnd then all of the effort spent on "building the world they wished to see" gets used to also build a world that goes against everything they wished, against their ideology. Due to openness of their efforts they also don't have an option on influencing that, unlike commercial products who can simply stop doing business with precise companies/people/territories. What if the very idea of open source gets used against itself? What would you advise those people to do? Shut up about "the current thing"?