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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.