On 3/17/22 09:30, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:57:55 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
Like Richard I don't really think this sort of political activism is the current role of the openSUSE project but I think its a good thing that we support organizations such as FSFE who's roll it is to look at such things. I'd also be happy if a vote of members found that we should adjust our role / vision to include such things.
I think there is an element of open source software that is inherently political - the idea of "free as in freedom, not as in beer" is arguably inherently a political statement.
Maybe, but it doesn't have to be in all the cases where i'm using open source software i'm doing so because its the best tool for the job, similarly there are many places where you can write a business case suggesting it might be the best thing to use. Personally I have no issues choosing to use Proprietary software when I feel it is the right tool for the job which is certainly the case for some of the things I do and at the end of the day thats really what user freedom is the freedom for someone to choose what they feel is the best tool for the job. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B