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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: 3, Insightful) by aiwarrior on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:20PM (1 child)
Aristarchus I disagree with Runaway1956 but you are not really bringing any righteousness by calling him uneducated and all sorts of insults. You are in the end, your own worse enemy of your ideas.
jrmorris is known for his opinions. They are not popular around here, and this is the actual good meaningful result here. Rejoyce in that. You starting insults is more or less counter to the point.
@Runaway, jmorris ideas are not the most consistent thing I have read set in ASCII. Supporting him may taint the often good no non-sense attitude that you show which might give you credibility. Unless the no-nonsense attitude has another meaning.
People are irrelevant, they should be free to be what they want. Ideas are what you must judge. This is the actual problem of nowadays political climate. We attack the messengers instead of the messages. This is what is poisonous.
Social orthodoxy like the kind propagated by SJW or other populace moralists, is fascism. Pure and simple!
Disliking a person because he is black or purple or brownish is racism. Pure and simple
A white SJW is as good an idiot as the Goebles loving people, as Serena Williams calling an umpire referee decision sexist (lol wtf?). The common link is the ideas as messages they propagate: They are easily deconstructed.
If people and actual black people would follow Martin Luther King's motto: Judge not by color of their skin but by the content of their character, a lot of bullshit would stop.
1st proposal: If people do not want to volunteer for that open source project, that is fine. They can even maintain their own branch, I do with Open embedded.
2nd proposal: If people do not want businesses to sell that or to that one, do not work there. You are free and (ohh yeah responsible).
3rd proposal: If you do not want businesses to undertake certain lines of work, convince your fellow citizens of it's wrongness and how you can overcome the hardship that may create.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:08PM
Thank you, Sir.
Yeah, I realize that supporting some people - uhhh - "looks bad" shall we say. JMorris? Sometimes he goes overboard, and often enough, overstates his case. That's the biggest reason I don't support him more than I do. But, even so, his brand of unpopular is more palatable most of the time, than the popular nonsense thrown around.
Maybe I need to concentrate more on stating my own opinion, and avoid "taking sides", even when one side is obviously so far out in left field as to be out of the ball park. I mean - it's easier to identify with the guy who is still in the ball park, than to identify with the crowd at the custard stand, over in the next town.
MLK. The man would roll over in his grave if he were to hear about BLM and Antifa. I hope no one goes by the grave yard to tell him about current events.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.