How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by yummypaint on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:30PM (#22241778)

Some might claim the BSD community's focus on security to be a purity spiral, but it's arguably produced things of value. Having small communities around who occasionally drive themselves to the extremes of a particular idea can useful for broader society.

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by nate_meurer on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:41PM (#22241890)

That's not the sort of purity that the article is talking about. The article is talking about purity for purity's sake -- a relative and subjective set of rules that exist to provide levers of power.

A singlular and uncompromising focus on OS security serves an absolute and objective purpose, that being... OS security. To the extent that it is objective, it is less subject to being coopted for political purposes.

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by wmf on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:45PM (#22241920)

A better example might be the people who fork free software to make it "more free".

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by KODeKarnage on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:44AM (#22244331)

Perhaps, but wouldn't a better example be the actual purity spiral occurring in open source?

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