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Sure, but I'm referring to a developer community who specifically aims to create "software that does one thing and one thing only." Having a political agenda is doing another thing.


They don't shove that political agenda into their software, do they? It's just something they do as a group of friends.


You're living about ten years in the past.

Kicking contributors out of open source projects, or dis-inviting speakers from technical conferences due to their purely personal opinions has been going on for a while now.

You don't need to act on wrongthink to get unpersoned by the mob.

This has, of course, led to a situation where there are still a bunch of nazis, misogynists, etc, in our profession and communities, but they've learned to STFU and/or engage with much better OPSEC. So now you'll never actually know. Out of sight, out of mind.

(to stay somewhat on-topic, yes, suckless, and dwm in particular, is awesome)




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