I’m a fan of open source, free software, whatever you want to call it. I have contributed to a GNU project and will do again when my workload reduces. I put my own stuff out there open licensed. I know a thing or two about this stuff.
So try to take it in when I tell you that the software freedom world has a big fucking problem, and that problem is cultural.
Great heaping swaths of the software libré world are culturally dominated by some of the most *radioactively* toxic people in tech. Not just nonce defenders like Stallman or WASPy racists like Raymond, but Silicon Valley techbros, libertarian whack jobs, and out and out fascists.
What is the fucking point of FLOSS if not to make the world better, more equitable, to use technology and our skill with it to lift people up? Are we really just in this to provide a commons for robber barons and the genocide brigade to pillage?
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