I so don’t care, my dude. Why bother responding at all when you completely ignored my very simple point.
If you see two pieces of identical software, one with 1000 downloads and one with 100,000, which would you choose?
They are identical pieces of open source software. By definition, it does not matter which one I choose, they will both perform identically. But if I do happen to choose the one with people you don’t like, it still doesn’t “support” them in any meaningful way, and certainly does not “support” the specific things about them that you object to. Your rhetoric is mere sophistry intended to muddy the waters.
Open source software isn’t owned by anyone. It doesn’t somehow bring bounty to its creators, it improves the lives of everyone without prejudice. It expands all human culture and potential. Even people you don’t like. Tough. Deal with it.
Don’t like it? Fork the project, purge all the names that upset you, and release it under a new name. Yay! Now everyone is supporting YOU!!
Yeah, it EMOTIONALLY supports them. Dude. It’s okay. It also supports the users who get value out of it in actual material ways.
A. Not a “dude”
B. I’ll pose the same rhetorical as I did to the other person that didn’t think popularity was support:
If you see two pieces of identical software, one with 1000 downloads and one with 100,000, which would you choose?
I so don’t care, my dude. Why bother responding at all when you completely ignored my very simple point.
They are identical pieces of open source software. By definition, it does not matter which one I choose, they will both perform identically. But if I do happen to choose the one with people you don’t like, it still doesn’t “support” them in any meaningful way, and certainly does not “support” the specific things about them that you object to. Your rhetoric is mere sophistry intended to muddy the waters.
Open source software isn’t owned by anyone. It doesn’t somehow bring bounty to its creators, it improves the lives of everyone without prejudice. It expands all human culture and potential. Even people you don’t like. Tough. Deal with it.
Don’t like it? Fork the project, purge all the names that upset you, and release it under a new name. Yay! Now everyone is supporting YOU!!