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Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by GranularRecipe on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:34AM (#30790363)
Open source is driven by many opioniated and idealistic people who also worry about the current geopolitical development. They might make their opinions known in a non-destructive manner.

You might not like it, fair enough, but expressing one's opinion in commit messages is neither childish nor an instrumentalisation by any government.

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Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by ekianjo on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:36AM (#30790418)
> expressing one's opinion in commit messages is neither childish nor an instrumentalisation by any government.

It's childish because it's incredibly naive to think that commit messages are going to change anyone's mind. Instead they will look like someone preaching for no reason. Next, how about doing an online petition as well? /s

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