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It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.
by jonathrg 7mo ago
It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.
- trollbridge 7mo agoThe main reason open source projects exist at all is because of people who started them with quite often fringe ideological leanings. Just look at the GNU project.
- Joker_vD 7mo agoAnd fringe economical leanings, too. Just look at the GNU project: the firmware in printers is still of subpar quality, and GNU didn't really help to change that... and why on Earth would it, anyway?
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo ago[flagged]
- trollbridge 7mo agoThis doesn’t make any sense?
- Joker_vD 7mo ago> It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings As long as they align with the correct (i.e. yours) values, of course. When they adopt the wrong values, it's not fine.
- jonathrg 7mo agoBut it is fine. If I disagree with a project's values I'm not going to contribute to it, and they wouldn't want me there either.
- debugnik 7mo agoThere's still a line between values I disagree with and values that directly attack me as a person. The former is how many of us feel about some of our dependencies and most proprietary software we use, so it's clearly fine to some degree.