leah & tigers & bears, oh my! on Nostr: increasingly, i think i'm losing interest in an "open source" movement that panders ...

increasingly, i think i'm losing interest in an "open source" movement that panders only to the interests of businesses who don't want to debug their own software. or a "free software" movement which explicitly refuses to care about ethics - up to and including the ethics of its founder

and i'm sick of this chorus of people saying it's not ok to put things like "don't use this software to turn a profit" or "you are forbidden from using this software in any way that facilitates crimes against humanity", because "oh, but it's not open source then". if your definition of open excludes - no, *forbids* - a moral dimension, then maybe it's just wrong. if forbidding people from using your source code to cause industrial grade harm is somehow controversial, maybe the bathwater has drowned the baby.

i like linux because i can drive it. but i'd like it way more if it forbade arms dealers or repressive regimes from benefiting from it, and if a capable OS ever shows up that does that, i'll be switching.

and for anyone who's going to come along and say "oh, but what about source code that forbids trans folk from using it?" i mean fine, i won't use that shit, but... look at the moral equivalence you just drew - do you expect me to believe you're "just asking the question"?