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Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by beaconstudios on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:53AM (#30790717)
not every politics-adjacent thread needs to devolve into "the wokes are coming for us all". You can disagree with the actions of progressives without making it this all-encompassing threat. Hell, I'm pretty left-wing and I'm fairly critical of some of the factions.

Either way, I can't see anybody putting "must add a BLM banner to their website" to the licensing conditions of their FOSS code.

Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by slackfan on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:55AM (#30790741)
That would be a wonderful thing to able be do, if the woke brigade wasn't screaming "YOU'RE WITH US OR YOU'RE AGAINST US" a parent over. ;) Ignoring that isn't an option, unfortunately, believe me, that's been tried.
Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by beaconstudios on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#30790770)
Yeah but so what? Disagreements are going to happen in politics. Other people disliking your politics and vice-versa is not an existential threat.

Anybody who legitimately makes a "liberals only" stand in their license will get forked and their usage will drop off.

Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by slackfan on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:59AM (#30790820)
>yeah but so what

Being silent about shitty behavior is the same as condoning it, don't you know? Just because you don't like the playbook doesn't mean it doesn't work.

>Anybody who legitimately makes a "liberals only" stand in their license will get forked and their usage will drop off.

Considering that the developer just pulled a "no russians" stand with their software...

Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by beaconstudios on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:03AM (#30790879)
> Being silent about shitty behavior is the same as condoning it, don't you know? Just because you don't like the playbook doesn't mean it doesn't work.

my point is that it doesn't matter. Condemn or not, regardless you can still fork earlier versions. Materially, it's not a threat to you.

> Considering that the developer just pulled a "no russians" stand with their software...

Yeah and look at how much shit they're catching for it. People are forking and freezing earlier versions, he's getting raked through the coals, etc. Is this really the outcome conservatives are afraid of?

Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by slackfan on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:05AM (#30790903)
>materially it is not a threat to you

Kind of crappy whataboutism there don't you think? What if I'm a VPN user and my hard drive was wiped?

>Conservatives

What does this have to do with conservatives?

Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by beaconstudios on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:07AM (#30790936)
> Kind of crappy whataboutism there don't you think? What if I'm a VPN user and my hard drive was wiped?

Yeah it obviously sucks to be a victim of this behaviour, but the developer is being roundly condemned by everybody. I thought you were worried about this type of behaviour being encouraged by progressives?

> What does this have to do with conservatives?

Just a guess, it's usually conservatives that hand-wring this much about "woke" people.