Post #857089

For years the awkward entente between civil libertarian Free Software types and illiberal Open Source advocates has more or less worked out. It's clear that this entente has broken down. These people advocating compliance with identity tracking and censorship regimes, where would they have stood in relation to PGP, GPG, the Clipper chip, DVDs, and all the other fights for civil liberties the Free Software movement engaged in decades ago? With their positions today, they'd have been on the other side. We must not accommodate them. This is not a time for compromise, it's a time for principled stands.