• raresbears@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Does that really make it totally apolitical though?. Like obviously it’s not inherently attached to a wide reaching political ideology, but it still is political in the same way that any free software is kind of political.

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      1 year ago

      IMO the GPL and similar licences are inherently political, and Linus very intentionally chose to release the Linux kernel under the GPL licence rather than under BSD or a proprietary licence.

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      1 year ago

      The very concept of free software and open contribution is political. That as a thing doesn’t necessarily exist within every political framework or culture. But that’s the nature of politics, ultimately in some way basically everything can have a political framing, and since politics are essentially “opinions on the way things should be” it’s ultimately inescapable.

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        1 year ago

        Everything can have a political framing, but that’s not the same as saying that everything is political.

        Only “opinions on the way things should be” are political, and not everything is an opinion.

        Linux is not an opinion, even if you can have an opinion about the role of Linux in society, or about the intent in its creation. You can even say the creation of Linux might have been politically motivated, or that its license was designed with a political purpose (like all licenses are, including the most restrictive and non-free), but that’s not the same as saying that Linux on itself is political.

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      1 year ago

      Personally I disagree but that’s ok, we can’t all see it the same way :)