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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.
by snvzz 9mo 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 9mo agoOpen 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 9mo 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 9mo agoYes, 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.