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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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Totally agree. The majority of Americans are great people. Not everyone is MAGA. We need to support the good ones. Sanctions and boycotts tend to unite.
One exception would be if the project imposse a security risk because key people and servers, within the US, may be blackmailed or pushed by the new administration. We're not there yet though. And I hope these projects and people migrate if this becomes the case.
Also, FOSS projects run by big tech are probably also wise to avoid for strategic reasons.
They're not the majority if they can't win an election — just sayin'.
77mio out of 340mio voted for trump which is roughly 22.6%
a minority of the population voted for trump though, it's not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it's 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn't vote.
So they decided that it was just fine if he won and saw no reason to oppose what he stands for...
Yeah, that's some good people right there I can see that /s
"Great people on both sides," as a very stable genius put it 🙄
Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread...
Fair enough. I'm still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.
On the other side, I don't count people as "great" who can't be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I'm sure.
the us electoral system is designed around preventing BIPOCs from voting especially in the southern states. You have to do a lot of paperwork to get into the system and sometimes you get kicked out of the system by arbitrary rules without being notified. You also have to vote at the place assigned to your part of town, or in some cases miles away, The place often is systematically understaffed in poor neighborhoods which means huge lines, also the vote is held during work hours and many more things.
Not choosing to vote or speak is endorsing the establishment. We are not great people. We are dumbfucks.
if its run by a big company then it's just open source and not free, or do you mean something like a company contributing to the code?