Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense
Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense
I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.
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Totally agree. The majority of Americans are great people. Not everyone is MAGA. We need to support the good ones. Sanctions and boycotts tend to unite.
One exception would be if the project imposse a security risk because key people and servers, within the US, may be blackmailed or pushed by the new administration. We're not there yet though. And I hope these projects and people migrate if this becomes the case.
Also, FOSS projects run by big tech are probably also wise to avoid for strategic reasons.
The majority of Americans are great people
They're not the majority if they can't win an election — just sayin'.
a minority of the population voted for trump though, it's not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it's 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn't vote.
Fair enough. I'm still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.
On the other side, I don't count people as "great" who can't be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I'm sure.
the us electoral system is designed around preventing BIPOCs from voting especially in the southern states. You have to do a lot of paperwork to get into the system and sometimes you get kicked out of the system by arbitrary rules without being notified. You also have to vote at the place assigned to your part of town, or in some cases miles away, The place often is systematically understaffed in poor neighborhoods which means huge lines, also the vote is held during work hours and many more things.
Yeah, a minority of people voted for Hitler, too.
77mio out of 340mio voted for trump which is roughly 22.6%
@not_IO Fewer voted to stop it...
American presidents rarely receive a majority of the vote. In this case, he did but thats the majority of voters in that election and not the majority of americans
Totally agree. The majority of Americans are great people.
Not choosing to vote or speak is endorsing the establishment. We are not great people. We are dumbfucks.
Not choosing to vote [...] is endorsing the establishment.
Where is the logic in that? By voting you're actively acknowledging the legitimacy of the State. How would not voting be an endorsement of anything, as you see it?
if its run by a big company then it's just open source and not free, or do you mean something like a company contributing to the code?