Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
by Karrot_Kream on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:17PM
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I think HN folks are commenting because:
1. These political threads always bring out the most ideologically strident folk
2. Developer time/experience is impacted by these changes.
While I personally think these banners are fine and good to raise awareness, I do agree that there's a moral grandstanding element as well. I'm often puzzled why it's so controversial a belief to have. I don't see why folks are so annoyed at these banners though because I've been annoyed for years and years at crappy ASCII/figlet drawings that libraries/apps output that are garbled in my terminal's width/encoding and yet people still add those.
1. These political threads always bring out the most ideologically strident folk
2. Developer time/experience is impacted by these changes.
While I personally think these banners are fine and good to raise awareness, I do agree that there's a moral grandstanding element as well. I'm often puzzled why it's so controversial a belief to have. I don't see why folks are so annoyed at these banners though because I've been annoyed for years and years at crappy ASCII/figlet drawings that libraries/apps output that are garbled in my terminal's width/encoding and yet people still add those.