alt Hacker NewsEveryone is entitled to their opinions.
My opinion is that open source documentation is like polite dinner conversation: It’s not the proper place to discuss politics.
If an author wishes to use their open source project as a platform to discuss politics, that’s the author’s prerogative. But then, as perhaps in this instance, it could be to the detriment of the project itself.
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> My opinion is that open source documentation is like polite dinner conversation: It’s not the proper place to discuss politics.
I know this is a common turn of phrase, but I can not help thinking that if the political conversation is impolite it is because some in the conversation is being impolite not due to the topic itself.
Other take is … which is cool feature of OSS … you don’t have to use projects that do political statements.
This is a very head in the sand approach to life that only those who are entitled may partake in. Reality is that most cannot live in ignorance of what is happening around them because it is also happening to them. Obviously not everything needs to remind you of stressful reality, but we also shouldn't avoid reality just because we are privileged enough to do so.
That is a position of privilege.
You can ignore politics, but at certain point, politics cease to ignore you.
His code, his rules.
Skirt too short, in other words?
I'm going to place the blame on the party committing the crimes, not the person exercising free expression.