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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 18:31:25 JST Aral Balkan

   FOSS is political or it is bullshit.

   (With apologies to Flavia Dzodan.)

   #foss #freeSoftware #freedom #activism #politics #technology

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 18:54:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Severák

     @severak I think you just made my point.

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     Severák (severak@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 18:54:13 JST Severák

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     @aral I somewhat disagree. While the license itself is kinda political thing a lot of FOSS is done as a hobby and as a way of relaxing from everyday stresses including politics. Many forums of FOSS projects explicitly bans talk about politics (and religion and sex too) and there is a good reason for it (project admins want to develop FOSS not to moderate flamewars).
     Some FOSS is also developed by corporations which adds additional reasons to avoid politics.
     This situation is complex.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 19:07:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • David Wilson

     @daviwil Yep.

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     David Wilson (daviwil@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 19:07:20 JST David Wilson

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     @aral Free Software is definitely political, but "open source" removed the politics so that it can be abused in the way that Free Software is designed to prevent.