When you get the masses you’ll get a percentage of dumbs. When the total gets bigger so does the mass of the dumbs. When the dumbs meet each other they clog things. It’s just part of the gig. They get to have opinions. Your wits just have to be sharp and your well thought out efforts need to be mixed with enough well structure rhetoric that the dumbs are satiated.
Apparently nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was invited to give a talk at FOSDEM and lots of people got upset about it. I have no idea if the talk will happen, but I do wonder if these guys protesting understand that the vast majority of open source projects are sponsored and funded by corporations. To not include and understand the motivations of those companies and how they use and support open source feels like willful ignorance.
The first freedom of free software is that you can run the code for any purpose, including as a business making money it capitalism.
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And for anyone reading this, you’re not one of the dumbs, of course. But they’re out there. So just stay smart and we’ll get through this together.