Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ultramancool 3977 days ago
> where ImaginaryDB is revealed to have made a sweeping genocide possible.

Freedom 0 according to the FSF is the freedom to use the software for any purpose (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html). Genocide included. I don't see why that would make anyone switch unless the authors publicly said "yes, we support this genocide".

Software is a tool, plain and simple. A better example right now would be Tor or Bitcoin. People aren't flocking away from those for their use in crimes...