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Good read! Thank you very much for writing this! :)
Great read. I learned through this about the Mullvad controversy, and I think I’ll stop using their services, which sucks because I think they were really ahead in the game when it comes to their privacy features. Oh well.
I switched from Mullvad to AirVPN and it works great, however I do miss some of the privacy features.
I’m glad this is getting a lot of push back. The FOSS community should be a welcoming collaborative space, but such an environment is not possible when bigotry is is tolerated.
Open source isn’t counterculture anymore, sorry but it has gotten too big to fit in your backpocket.
I understand you disagree with some of the people using and writing it now… but if that’s the case, perhaps communities using a different kind of license would be better suited for you if you cannot get along with them?
I feel like the author is trying to point out some kind of hypocrisy while also feeding into one themselves… if open source was supposed to be for everyone, well, that includes people you don’t like. And you’re not going to change their opinions any more than they can change yours.
This isn’t about "disagreeing with people " so much as tolerating intolerance .
You’ve fallen for the paradox of tolerance, OSS version.
The author, and you, were mistaken: OS is not for everyone. It’s not about whether I or anyone else “likes” them. Nazis and corpos don’t come to software communities with honest intent. They lie and mislead to gain power and control. Then they consolidate power and exploit their control for personal gain.
That isn’t “political” it’s predatory, and people who treat it like politics are running cover for the exploiters whether they know it or not.
I don’t want to change their shitty opinions. I want them banned from our communities so their corrosive influence can’t cause further harm.
OS is not for everyone.
Isn’t it part of the definition that it is?
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No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
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No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
Licensing is not community, quit defending Nazis.
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The paradox clears itself up if you look at what tolerance actually is. It’s simply not interfering with people’s agency over themselves. Given that your right to self-agency doesn’t entitle you to restrict others’ self-agency, behavior that does try restricting others’ agency is automatically not included in “tolerance.”
I want them banned from our communities
So you want to call people fascists and nazis while also excluding people whose opinions you don’t like? The irony is downright wild.
To reiterate what Karimov said:
people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind. However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.
I’d argue that GPL is still counterculture, it’s just that permissive licensing is more common these days and both are conflated into single umbrella of free software. Permissive licensing culture made way into traditional free software spaces like Linux and we’re seeing results of that now.
I’ll be happy for the day people stop believing foss is a story of ethical philanthropy and instead understand its macroeconomic value to consortiums who need technology that isn’t owned by a monopoly.
