So? There is a difference between someone using your tools for evil and actively engaging in profit seeking with said evil doer in order to make money hand over fist.
Developer builds FOSS software free for anyone to use -> somebody evil uses it -> developer is evil by transitive property.
Is that really your take? It’s called FOSS because it’s free and open for anyone to use, that’s the whole fucking point. So seriously, what’s your actual call-to-action here?
Edit: Let’s say you leave your old couch on the curb with a “free couch” sign. It happens to get picked up by the local kkk for their little clubhouse. Whoops, now you’re evil and dumb, so fuck you.
You’re responsible for the technology you create. Unconstrained freedom is more often than not the freedom of the powerful to oppress the weak. Anything else is techbro ideology. FOSS ideology and techno-fascist ideology have the same roots in the freedom of information.
My call to action is unrelated to technological production, because technology doesn’t solve social problems. Unionize workers in Microsoft. If you really want, build software to facilitate the construction and deployment of worker power, and stop playing around with the liberation of software. As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.
Come to Linux, it’s so much better anyway
Linux is used extensively for military and surveillance purposes. Licenses don’t stop bullets.
So? There is a difference between someone using your tools for evil and actively engaging in profit seeking with said evil doer in order to make money hand over fist.
Contributing to genocide for money is evil. Contributing to genocide for no money is evil and dumb.
Is that really your take? It’s called FOSS because it’s free and open for anyone to use, that’s the whole fucking point. So seriously, what’s your actual call-to-action here?
Edit: Let’s say you leave your old couch on the curb with a “free couch” sign. It happens to get picked up by the local kkk for their little clubhouse. Whoops, now you’re evil and dumb, so fuck you.
You’re responsible for the technology you create. Unconstrained freedom is more often than not the freedom of the powerful to oppress the weak. Anything else is techbro ideology. FOSS ideology and techno-fascist ideology have the same roots in the freedom of information.
My call to action is unrelated to technological production, because technology doesn’t solve social problems. Unionize workers in Microsoft. If you really want, build software to facilitate the construction and deployment of worker power, and stop playing around with the liberation of software. As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.
And the people who maintain it are profiting from genocide as well, or…
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism