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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by RickJWagner on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:49AM (#17354438)
Yet another reason to choose Open Source.

There will be other political skirmishes. How to decide what to take a stand on? What if time reveals you made a mistake (i.e. NOW supporting Bill Clinton)? People are too easily manipulated.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jobigoud on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:11AM (#17354584)
> Yet another reason to choose Open Source.

I'm an open source fan but I fail to see your point.

Open source software can be used by anyone, including people you don't agree with. You can suddenly find yourself helping bad people just by maintaining or developing your open source software.

I have had it happen with one of my project, where people used it (and are probably still using it) for activities I disagree with. The only thing you can do is not interact with them, but they are still benefiting from the work.

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