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FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect

44 points by obeleh 8mo ago

zetanor 8mo ago
After sitting through the first two minutes of hysterics, I started skipping around and the video is just the opening ceremony for FOSDEM. Probably see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846970 (or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103) instead.
snvzz 8mo ago
We need to firmly reject these cancerous elements which try to poison open source with politics. It will led to even more damage if left to fester.
- wiml 8mo ago
  Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.
  - 1337shadow 8mo ago
    > Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception Prove it. > But it's all political It's not, it's technical.
- 1337shadow 8mo ago
  Yes, it's cost freenode and many more scissions, X.org going crazy, discussing rolling back 1.5 years of commits just to eliminate a contributor from history, it's ridiculous. There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.
ChrisArchitect 8mo ago
Talk link with video: Welcome to FOSDEM 2026 - Richard "RichiH" Hartmann https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fos...
akagusu 8mo ago
No, it's not. Free/Libre software is, open source is just the corporate version of free/libre software minus politics.
- snvzz 8mo ago
  Neither is. But there are those who seek to destroy them by co-opting politics in.
SPICLK2 8mo ago
The guy seems very upset about something, but it's really unclear what exactly that is. He talks about a crossroads and the loss of democracy - is this about the EU re-aligning itself away from the US and towards China?

44 points by obeleh 8mo ago

After sitting through the first two minutes of hysterics, I started skipping around and the video is just the opening ceremony for FOSDEM. Probably see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846970 (or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103) instead.

snvzz 8mo ago

We need to firmly reject these cancerous elements which try to poison open source with politics. It will led to even more damage if left to fester.

wiml 8mo ago
Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.
- 1337shadow 8mo ago
  > Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception Prove it. > But it's all political It's not, it's technical.
1337shadow 8mo ago
Yes, it's cost freenode and many more scissions, X.org going crazy, discussing rolling back 1.5 years of commits just to eliminate a contributor from history, it's ridiculous. There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.

ChrisArchitect 8mo ago

Talk link with video: Welcome to FOSDEM 2026 - Richard "RichiH" Hartmann https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fos...

akagusu 8mo ago

No, it's not. Free/Libre software is, open source is just the corporate version of free/libre software minus politics.

snvzz 8mo ago
Neither is. But there are those who seek to destroy them by co-opting politics in.

SPICLK2 8mo ago

The guy seems very upset about something, but it's really unclear what exactly that is. He talks about a crossroads and the loss of democracy - is this about the EU re-aligning itself away from the US and towards China?