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> open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses). It seems very plausible until you try to reverse that statemen
by eimrine 3y ago
> open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses).
It seems very plausible until you try to reverse that statement. Are proprietary technologies (Palantir, TikTok, even Microsoft/Google/Apple) exactly peaceful?
If you are developing some FOSS for killing people, you at least gonna name variables correctly, I mean "unsigned long long peopleKilled" will never be named as "kittensSaved".
- quectophoton 3y agoEh, "open source" just implies that certain hand-picked conditions are met, nothing more. Being good to society is not one of those conditions. If you think of open source as a subset of all software, less like a point in some number line and more like a Venn diagram, it makes more sense.