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A comment on Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, militarists or fascists?.

Re:Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, m... by new_guy on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:45PM (#28041678)
These people have zero hesitation in killing you and your family if you annoy them, they even take pleasure in it. Why would you think a 'license' would stop them?

oh noes!! a GPL license, our dastardly plot for world domination is foiled!!

Not to mention people will always work for a paycheck regardless.

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Re:Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, m... by freemint on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:50PM (#28041746)
I never said a license would stop them.

However if they pick another software over mine due to soft choices I made when I creating it or building a community around I am less complicit.

If my software were to be inherently better compared to a politically non discriminatory software my software would put some weight on the social scales that decide where we end up as a society.

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