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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 29 points 4 days ago

The majority of Americans are great people

They're not the majority if they can't win an election — just sayin'.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

a minority of the population voted for trump though, it's not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it's 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn't vote.

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago

Fair enough. I'm still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.

On the other side, I don't count people as "great" who can't be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I'm sure.

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

the us electoral system is designed around preventing BIPOCs from voting especially in the southern states. You have to do a lot of paperwork to get into the system and sometimes you get kicked out of the system by arbitrary rules without being notified. You also have to vote at the place assigned to your part of town, or in some cases miles away, The place often is systematically understaffed in poor neighborhoods which means huge lines, also the vote is held during work hours and many more things.