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Re:'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who De... by sdinsn on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:05PM (#21030104)
> they wanted to use someone else’s software, without paying that person

Because the software was open source.

> to do something that person didn’t want their software to be used for.

I didn't realize Chef had to analyze every open source contributors political opinions.

> So they stopped allowing chef to use their software.

Which is against the entire idea of open source software.

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Re:'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who De... by happytoexplain on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:32PM (#21031985)
>I didn't realize Chef had to analyze every open source contributors political opinions.

Arguably, they only have to analyze their own, if it's immoral enough.

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