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  Open source, where anyone can compile it and use it as they want must be destroyed. It's not open when the "openness" is used against you. We must be in charge, we must be those who decide who can use the fruit of our work.

  I admit it won't be easy or nice, but it's necessary. We need to background check everyone. Every user of our work. Get back to the roots. You allow your friend to use your code and your work. You allow trusted people only. It will still be free to use in terms of money, not free in the terms it's for everyone. Because "free speech" in only a tool to inject fascism to our society. Free as in "free beer" not free as in "bring your fascism"

  We will need centralized registry of all users, which would have another benefit in driving corporations out. Are you from Amazon? Supporting zionist genocide in Palestine? Sorry, you are not welcome here, you are not "free" to use our code.
Assuming that this isn't a setup, this article and this author and this sentiment exactly validates the fears of the "keep politics out of open source" people. This is where it leads, taken to its logical conclusion, if you don't do so.
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Honestly, I hope it's setup. Got this in telegram group and I think it's completely out of anything. But sharing this anyway - given the recent sentiments around floss, I won't be surprised it was meant seriously :-/

The whole thing reads like an odd parody. “A modest proposal.”

the more i'm thinking about this... it cannot be serious...

The essay takes the anti-Omarchy arguments and pushes them to deliberately absurd conclusions:

>> “You don't want fascists benefiting from your code?”

> Then don't publish source.

> Background-check every user.

> Maintain a centralized approved-user registry.

> Monitor people's browsing.

> Use AI to detect unacceptable politics.

> Abolish encryption.

Seems like someone trying a reductio ad absurdum.


it's funny, because next to the politics it's the AI-first enthusiasm that drives people away from that distro :-/



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