Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source

> It is politics and ideology harms open source.

The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology. Open source would not exist to the same extent without the ideology espoused by the FSF. The problem is that abandoning a key tenant of the free software movement, neutrality towards different uses (part of freedom 0 of the free software definition), does far more harm than good and contravenes FLOSS ideology.

I'm probably going to start sounding like a broken record here, but what I have realized is I am living here as a man. I am not a citizen, or another entity, and my morality is is between my myself, and my "creator". This creator could be God, could be nature/natural selection, just whatever process brought the "I am" here.

I am also aware that with this knowledge I chose to not harm any other living entities. The "problem" is that people calling themselves "agents of governments" go around asking other people initiate violence on other people, using words such as "laws" and "orders", and these other people, believing that "the government" i a real entity, and that these "laws" somehow overwrite our natural sense of morality and free will decided to act and initiate violence.

In this current conflict, people who call themselves the government on both "sides" are instructing people to go initiate violence, and people thinking the authority is real do so, and go murder other people.

We, as people who are mostly "uninvolved", acting in the role of "citizens", are seeing this evil occur, and want it to stop. However, we are still supporting this idea that government is real, that "Russia" is doing something to "Ukraine", when there is no "Ukraine", or "Russia" or "United States", but simply people who act as if these entities exist. We give power to these egregores, or intersubjective entities, and by doing so believe we are somehow absolved from making our own moral decisions.

All of this stops when each and every one of us (or at least a big enough percentage) takes individual moral responsibility for our actions, and learns to be moral for its own sake.

A big part of this that a lot of people I've talked to seem to be missing is the role of "money", and how people with free will thinking that pieces of paper, or numbers on a computer have power or value. The only value that exists is us as conscious entities. Every aspect of reality, from this computer I am typing this response on, to buildings, art, and technology is the output of consciousness acting on matter on its own free will.

When we believe that having money in our possession gives us power and freedom, it gives us a false sense of security. If I have some sum of money, I believe I can use this money to influence reality by giving it to other conscious entities. For now this is somewhat true, because you, and other entities agree to do thing in exchange for these imaginary numbers. However, what is true is that each and every one of us acts on our own free will, and we use money because we are too afraid to admit we are dependent on each other. As we continue believing this, we allow other people who know how to manipulate the numbers in clever ways, such as those people controlling central banks, and printing money to exert large influence on the direction of the world. During the last two years, a very large number of money was printed, and used to reshape reality. The value of every dollar decreased, as suddenly the equation was out of balance, but again, those in control of the money supply use this new money, and we, believing it represents value change our behavior trying to capture the value, forgetting it is us who are the real value the whole time.

So my message to other people who want to hear it is: you are the value. There are no governments, companies or money. There is only us, and we are the value.

That would be a wonderful thing to able be do, if the woke brigade wasn't screaming "YOU'RE WITH US OR YOU'RE AGAINST US" a parent over. ;) Ignoring that isn't an option, unfortunately, believe me, that's been tried.