No, it's not.
Free/Libre software is, open source is just the corporate version of free/libre software minus politics.
snvzz 2 days ago [-]
Neither is.
But there are those who seek to destroy them by co-opting politics in.
snvzz 3 days ago [-]
We need to firmly reject these cancerous elements which try to poison open source with politics.
It will led to even more damage if left to fester.
1337shadow 2 days ago [-]
Yes, it's cost freenode and many more scissions, X.org going crazy, discussing rolling back 1.5 years of commits just to eliminate a contributor from history, it's ridiculous.
There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.
wiml 2 days ago [-]
Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.
1337shadow 2 days ago [-]
> Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception
Prove it.
> But it's all political
It's not, it's technical.
SPICLK2 2 days ago [-]
The guy seems very upset about something, but it's really unclear what exactly that is. He talks about a crossroads and the loss of democracy - is this about the EU re-aligning itself away from the US and towards China?
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But there are those who seek to destroy them by co-opting politics in.
It will led to even more damage if left to fester.
There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.
Prove it.
> But it's all political
It's not, it's technical.