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Linus Torvalds reaffirms that Linux is not "Anti-AI" & not a "Social Warrior" project (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say FOSS is not more political than paying taxes. FOSS is just another way of using the copyright law enforcement without which FOSS cannot exist. If no copyright law enforcement is in place, then the GPL license wouldn't have power. So FOSS is just another way a law abiding citizen may use their rights/entitlement and perform their obligation with copyright law like how they have right/entitlement and obligation from taxes.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

FOSS is not more political than paying taxes.

If we're including the other option, not paying taxes, then I agree. The choice of whether or not to use FOSS is as political as the choice of whether or not to pay taxes.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Coming back here from another discussion, I do find it funny now that a legal entity can choose to not pay taxes but a human cannot avoid that in any reasonable way

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

I mean you can if you're rich enough. But yeah.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

That is a good point