cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politicalmemes/p/1290769/there-is-a-3rd-choice
Reposting because it was removed from another comm earlier for the political content.
Where is the third thing? Open source software is left wing ffs. Proprietary software is extremely capitalist/fascist.
You say that as if we don’t continually discover right wingers, fascists, religious bigots, and conspiracy theorists within the community.
You’ll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too. Union activity is still left-wing activity.
Fascists and right wingers too?
There are features of Open Source that clearly appeal to several kinds of right wing brain.
In general the far right is also a counter-culture, that benefits from all the kinds of freedoms that the left does.
You want privacy so government doesn’t come for the immigrants, they want privacy so the government doesn’t come for their guns.
You want encryption so the corpos don’t see you unionizing, they want encryption so the cops don’t see them organizing a coup.
You want free speech because information on gender and orientation is not scandalous and dangerous, they want free speech to discuss the proper place of brown people.
You don’t want to use mainstream tech because it’s awful, exploitative and plutocratic, they don’t want to use it because it’s clearly an arm of the jewish deep state.
And let’s not even get into the whole crypto thing. Largely open source, but largely appealing to ancaps and other such funny beasts.
You’ll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too.
Yes but the conspiracies tend to be different.
“Dad wrote TempleOS”
Jesus said while opening the laptop with a gazillion stickers on it
Jesus would use Arch Linux
Confirmed: the only divine church is the Church of Emacs.
Stop spreading blasphemy. Everyone knows Jesus uses Vim.
Maybe unconfigured. Even Jesus Christ wouldn’t be able to handle the Vimscript.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that lua as a configuration utility is also a chamber of hell that jesus wouldn’t even want the devil to go to.
It’s always amusing when the Neovim users pretend to like Lua. It’s not like Emacs Lisp is the best language out there (it’s not, and I’d much rather Emacs was configured in Scheme, they’re working on it…), but at least it’s a good fit, by design, for configuration.
This is why it was considered political.
Jesus would have been too addicted to foot fetish pics online to have any real opinions.
open source software is literally a form of leftism… lol
Technically it was the Free Software movement that was a form of Leftism, and Open Source was Capitalism’s attempt to subsume it once it became apparent that it was capable of producing better software.
