Re:Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from th...
by johnny22 on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:45AM
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> It is a sad day when politics must be paramount when contributing to a foss project
Politics have always been the reason for me. It depends on what you call politics though.
I got involved with FOSS initially because of the GPL. I then found a project whose aims I agreed with, and also had a welcoming environment.
I might contribute a one off patch here or there to some other projects, but the ones I stay are such as those.
The frustrated comment I gave is from the perspective of someone who is not an american; I don't see american californians as the moral authority of how open source software must be developed.
It is a sad day when politics must be paramount when contributing to a foss project. If developers wanted this burden they'd need look no further than working in a soul-crushing multinational mega-corp.
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