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by roenxi
198 days ago
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> For many authors and maintainers, ‘free software’ and ‘open source’ as traditionally defined result in unsustainable outcomes. I'm very grateful for all this free software, but if a maintainer doesn't think what they are doing is sustainable then they need to stop doing it. That isn't much of a revelation. And if people want to release software that can only be used by people on their ideological wavelength then they can do that, but: - The projects are probably not going to find much popularity. - In many ways it is a remarkably entitled position; after all my dishwashing machine doesn't test my moral purity before cleaning my dishes. Why should my software? - Any ideology that centres on identifying "the bad guys" is too naive to hold a community together without becoming unbelievably corrupt and an insult to whatever ideals the original believers had. |
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