Opinion: Open-source should stay away from all kinds of politics
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Opinion: Open-source should stay away from all kinds of politics
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#2> Do they think that democrats are more left leaning and thus supportive of open source than republicans?
Is this satire? I'm blown away otherwise.
No, this is not what they think, obviously.
The call is for developers to recognize the potential for abuse of the software they write, to use their means and their platforms to speak out against oppression, and to generally not be huge pieces of shit under the guise of purported software neutrality.
This post is extremely low quality. It lacks meaningful content, is basically just a "SJWs are ruining open source!" rant, and is poorly edited. I think this has no place on HN.
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#3Look no further than Webpack shutting down their website and documentation then angrily dismissing POCs who are concerned they can't do their jobs. [1] In the same light, they shut down all of the incredibly respectful criticism they received, mostly centered around not having the website accessible after dismissing the message. [2]
[1] https://github.com/webpack/webpack.js.org/issues/3765
[2] https://github.com/webpack/webpack.js.org/issues/3762
Have we reached a point where open source will throw POC developers under the bus in order to score political virtue points?
It's a total trainwreck, and politics is used as a weapon in open source against political enemies through shut downs, egregious code of conduct policies and arbitrary enforcement actions.
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#4These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tripling down on that.
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#5Anyone who claims that Black Lives Matter is a Democratic party initiative and uses "SJW" unironically should not be taken seriously.
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#6Free software is decidedly a political movement.
"open source" started in the 1990s, not as "an attempt to escape the clutches of proprietary and monopolistic companies like Microsoft and Apple" but as a way to make the source code part of the free software movement more palatable in proprietary and monopolistic companies like Microsoft and Apple.
And the GNU project started in 1983, before Microsoft or Apple had anything like their current influence. Apple didn't ship the first Macintosh until 1984, for example, and the Apple ][ opened computing domains far unlike the walled gardens outside of microcomputing.
If you go into open source to make the world a better place, then that's a political statement. Which might also explain why some open source programmers consider that open source development might not be the only way to make the world a better place.
There are of course other reasons that people go into open source. My statement is that there's no clear and obvious separation between the two.
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#7I agree it in general. There's a workaround for affected people
> fmad89: DOCS LIVES MATTER!
Once it's alive, it's immortal on web archives. e.g.
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#8Hoping this is satire or somer sort of joke....but otherwise,
Popular open source developers are using their platforms to advocate against oppression. This should be encouraged, not discourage - regardless of what your political leanings are.
Would you be just as upset if they wrote #AllLivesMatter? Probably not.
This post is using open source as a thinly veiled guise to rant about "SJW"s (the use of that term alone should disqualify it). This shouldn't be on HN.
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#9These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tripling down on that.
Do people actively do this? My politics are so "off-center" that I'd starve to death in the street if I only associated with people and companies whom I agreed with politically.
How do you even keep track? If someone asked me the political stances of my closest colleagues or largest software partners I couldn't even tell you.
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