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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by TeaDrunk on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @12:38AM (#24128639)
The tech sector has almost never not been politicized, damn, are kids these days forgetting how much open source was fought for and defended?
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by j-krieger on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:15AM (#24130308)
Open Source is not influenced by political factors. Influencing factors are almost entirely economical, with the exception being decisions by lawmakers.

I'd rather they kept politics and so-called fights against racism out of Software, because they were never problematic there to begin with.

The terms master and slave for example are only in bad taste because people make them to be.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:24AM (#24129712)
To channel RMS: The political concern there is Free Software. Open Source isn't a political movement, it's an approach to software development that has similar ideas on software licensing.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by raxxorrax on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:14AM (#24129385)
I remember that they fought for freedoms, not for corporate compliance.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by pgeorgi on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:08AM (#24129339)
Not forgetting, they weren't there yet
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:46AM (#24130138)
Neither was I. I remember. Youth is no excuse to be ignorant of recent history.
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