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In our increasingly politicized world, it has become popular to chant "all software is political." Software builds the systems that free or constrain us, the thinking goes, and so we should withhold it from bad people. This is the thinking that has led Microsoft employees and others to decry contracts tech companies have with ICE (US Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement), insisting that their software only be sold to people they like.
[...] Over the years we as an open source community have experimented with all sorts of stupid ideas, like efforts to block anyone from using code for commercial purposes unless they pay. Each time, we've realized that as good a goal as it is for developers to get paid, for example, the destruction caused by closing off the code to uses we don't like ends up ruining the foundations upon which open source rests.
This is dramatically more important, however, when it comes to attempts to politicize open source software.
As developer Chris Cordle stated, "Nobody wins" and the "whole idea [undergirding open source] dies" ... "if an author arbitrarily picks and chooses who can and can't use it based on whoever Twittersphere is mad at this week." It doesn't matter if there is tremendous cause for that anger. Open source dies when it becomes politicized.
Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-politicizing-open-source-is-a-terrible-idea/
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @09:03PM (1 child)
CoC, Code of Conduct : 1. A coherent list of rules designed to provide an open, caring and non-toxic environment where lack of actual ability doesn't matter, as long as you are not a SWM*. 2. A document designed to give control of a project to SJW's so that you aspies can't hurt our feels anymore.
*SWM : Straight white male. For the purposes of SJW's, sufficient physical disability may also qualify as bent.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @09:48PM
As a SWM I'm here to tell you that you are suffering from a persecution complex. You are either a reactionary dumbass or an asshole who thinks people don't like you because you are a SWM.
I'm sure there are some stupid abuses that have happened, but hey that is life. Shall we label all conservatives "Nazis" just because there are some real Nazi Conservatives? I'm sure you have the urge to say "yeah, that is exactly what you libruhls cucked SJWs do!" at which point I refer you back to the first paragraph where you must decide whether you are a dumbass or an asshole.
Personally I place my bet on all the CoC haters being assholes who are used to getting away with it over the internet and are upset that anyone should dare require civility to be a part of their project. AKA: whiny little man childs.