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Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (39 children)

Yes. There is an extremely arbitrary distinction made between the USA and Russia. Both are known for injecting spyware. China is somehow still okay? It makes no sense.

Not to mention the elephant in the room by not banning another certain country actively committing war crimes.

All software should be safety checked. Where the maintainer is from should be irrelevant.

But the most weird aspect is the timing. Why now and not a few years ago?

[+] [email protected] -32 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

There is an extremely arbitrary distinction made between the USA and Russia.

Your world view seems to be highly influenced by propaganda. It's very easy to draw a distinction between these two countries. Let me start with an easy one:

Russia is a dictatorship, the US is a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The commenter says as he repeats other propaganda.

The US is not and has never been a democracy. The US is an oligarchy.

Read The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At best, it was for a while a Representative Democracy. Where people gave their vote to other people to vote for them.

The fact that most Americans think the US is not an oligarchy, today, is a testament to the power of the State and their corporate media to propagandized their own citizens. It is very rich for them to point to other country's Oligarchies and somehow absolutely fail to see their own. Or worse, call it some weird type of conspiracy to call out or point out reality.

I mean, it is not like it is not obvious if one takes a step back or two and looks at it objectively.

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