I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.
Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016
I saw an article that argued it's both, there's a left wing anti-capitalist camp that organized under "free software" and there's a right wing/libertarian camp that organized under open source.
And somehow the two factions managed to cooperate for a while under the banner of FOSS.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/
As an example I thought tt-rss was pretty functional, but after I saw their demo instance was full of stuff like the drudge report, I couldn't stand to use it.
@alienghic @danirabbit I find this stance _odd_ to be put it mildly. It dehumanizes the political motivations of the contributors and only shows a shallow understanding of economics.
Like nothing in the GPL or MIT or whatever is inherently left or right wing, you can easily argue it the other way around. GPL is libertarian, because it allows _me_ to do whatever the fuck I want with the stuff I bought 🙃.
The politics were introduced by the people, not by the license.
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