- Joined
- Feb 9, 2013
Well, and even if it's not outright sabotage, even just goofy clauses they put into licenses like "YOU CANNOT USE THIS SOFTWARE IF YOU WORK FOR X, Y and Z" is also super unprofessional.I don't necessarily disagree. It's just getting to the point where projects that I have to use in a professional setting are starting to become a liability, because there's no knowing if some activist dev might drop a retarded logic bomb into a release and break shit for stupid reasons. Again. It's made me wary, whenever devs or project maintainers start spouting off like this.
It's something Cloudflare should've thought of (albeit in a service context).
Old school open source developers, even the super left wing ones, still had an autistic respect for utility being a neutral virtue. Tools are tools, they can be used for good or for evil.
The thing with modern insane SJW devs nowadays, is that they are very fickle and can change their minds on a dime.
Right now it might be forbidding ICE from using their software, but let's say we get a republican president in the next election. Are they going to start blocking other government departments? What about companies that build software for the government?
And it's not all take, take, take from people like me. When I encounter bugs in an open source project that I use for work, I'm very capable of drilling down to the cause and opening intelligent bug reports. I'm not a braindead end user. Sometimes I'll even offer fixes.
Open source / free software has only been as good as it was in the past because more eyes make bugs shallow. You get better quality software when you let more people use it.
It's amusing that it's the far left dumbasses nowadays who are failing to see the value in community labor.