‘Open source should not be about politics.’
MY DUDE. OPEN SOURCE IS LITERALLY POLITICS.
@brawaru Free software (or FOSS, for a wider umbrella) but yeah.
The decision to distribute something as free software is a decision to either subvert (copyleft) or completely ignore (permissive licensing) the established copyright institutions in order to change the way people live and do stuff. This is, in itself, a political decision, and the collective of people making the same political decision is the definition of a political movement.
I just don't see how it's supposed to be "not about politics". Not *all* politics is our concern, that is true. But "being apolitical" is almost always a lie.
@tormeh those are political decisions as well, they also have to do with interests and power of groups of people.
Economy and politics are secretly the same thing, because it decides who has decision-making power over what goods, material or otherwise. Money is a measure of power.
@brawaru