It’s legitimate to ask what did all the Internet angst add to the solution? The answer it would seem is very little. I do hope it is different for Ukraine but I’m not holding my breath.
I see a lot of ambiguous statements these days, from too many people. People not wanting to "take sides", but in reality not yet willing to say they only stand for their personal interests, if not for a return to the law of the fittest.
What do you stand for?
Politics doesn't belong in software. Some software can be political, sure, but the only purpose of these banners is good PR and virtue signalling.
Our lives are going to change. Depending on how concerned and committed western people will be, we'll have to face a major energy crisis, or give up our democracies for cheap oil & gas. If trump is re elected, I see nothing good coming for the west. We are living crucial times, fascism is back in full force, our medias and politicians are being bought one by one with dirty russian money. And fascists don't feel the need to hide anymore.
But people fail to see why this war isn't yet another political, social or economical "issue". I looks like we're in for a very dark age...
It’s not a trendy thing, it won’t go away because of some random trendy thing.
HNers annoyance couldn’t be more irrelevant. And people are still getting killed because the world has decided that this war , as bad as it is, shouldn’t interfere with business too much.
People are still getting killed because we don’t want our precious little irrelevant easy lives to be disturbed too much.
The world still hasn’t waked up. We should be alarmed and fully supporting freedom. But the world is just annoyed. I thought moral values were important to open source.