Post #2598455
2021-04-02 18:18 UTC
@seachaint@hackers.town
That's very persuasive, but allow me to push back a bit. What do we really know without context when someone says "libre" or "free software"?
For all I know, the next thing they'll say is "But I hate what the SJWs are doing to it with their codes of conduct and cancel culture", and I know that their idea of liberation is very different from mine.
With the implosion of the FSF linked to misogyny and harassment, more people may gravitate towards "open source" for that reason alone.
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@seachaint@hackers.town 2021-04-02 18:35
@eloquence@social.coop I'll accept that: one term confuses purpose, the other confuses culture. Both are kinda tainted.. I like the appeal of newer terms like "communal", "emancipatory", etcetera. I suppose the fact that you and I, while generally agreeing on the better and worse aspects of the scene, can argue on the relative bad-ness of the two older terms is proof enough that it's time to move on from them both. But we had better move quickly to get out the new mission and branding because, as you say, people are going to fall off the better parts of Libre software and land in merely "open", or worse "shared source", or some other neolib rebranding.