https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/24903b5de2e07cc7b65eae...
https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/03/25/here-we-go-again
http://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and-...
https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
If you think it's alright to join an organization and then go out of your way to backstab its founder because his social skills are lacking, then you're free to do that.
regarding "bloody marxist" or whatever.. I like the a-political, personal emphasis of GNU .. that means, I can sit next to a Real Bloody Marxist, and drink coffee and debug $lspci output.. seriously, I am OK with that, it supports a worldview of 'tolerance'.. similarly for people with serious depression, people who have had trouble with food addictions, people who SMOKE TOBACCO ! all of that.. its part of a "plural society" which I personally support everyday.
back to lspci output here
It is encouraging that most free-software users/contributors can see past political squabbles and work on tech that improves society more objectively.
The problem is apolitical can easily be or become amoral, so I can't agree this is a virtue without further clarification. Some differents can and should be tolerated, but in the spirit of the paradox of tolerance others should not.
How would you feel if you released software under an MIT license that helped a neo-Nazi resurgence for instance?
>How would you feel if you released software under an MIT license that helped a neo-Nazi resurgence for instance?
Firstly, I disapprove of permissively-licensed software.
Secondly, if you're making technology whose goal is to empower individuals, and the majority of individuals want to overthrow their free government and replace it with some fascist dictatorship, then there will be some edge cases like that in which that technology has a net-negative effect on global freedom. I have no problem with that, that's the price of individual freedom and the right to self-determination.
I think what you're trying to say here is some variation of popper's paradox, wherein freedom-enabling technology gives people the freedom to take away their own freedom. While it's true to some extent, trying to make direct use of that principle like you're doing here can lead to some pretty disastrous results, because you can basically use it to justify any authoritarian action in the name of freedom. For example, what would you do in this instance? put backdoors in the software that these neo-nazis are using? Any attempt at limiting the anti-institutional power of the technology will certainly have a net-negative impact on global freedom, because the same modes of technology will used be used more crucially against tyrannical institutions than non-tyrannical ones.
Let me say this: I don't fear any of these fascist or communist dictatorships taking over the world. I think those are merely meta-stable ideologies that are eventually toppled if you put power and knowledge in the hands of individuals. What I am worried about is when the western world develops and exports surveillance technology which enables these dictatorships to continue their miserable existence in the first place.
Communism, Fascism, Corporatism, Cronyism: these systems will always come about in one form or another because they are the emergence of mankind's worst characteristics. The only way to eliminate them completely is to remove from man that which makes him human. That is why the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time.
Misreprentation, FUD, discrimination, they all are literally faces of slandering, doing them is "doing the deeds of the devil" in a very literal sense.
Politics will always be there, even if they aren't talked about.
Regardless of the person's views though I think if their code is clean and they're not actively applying said views to harm other contributors, live and let live...