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It's not just that, the overbearing FOSS mentality, from Stallmans corner of that world, is that you need to take a damn political position on software to be able to interact with other people that use it.
Which in itself is not actually true, but if you approach it like this with non-technical types then they will rightly and instinctively balk at both the software and you.
Bringing people to FOSS should be the same as bringing them to any other software, and if the ideology behind it is so self-evidently true then - by its own standard - it won't need significant petitioning to convince them they should use more of it for ethical reasons as well as to meet their needs. This is software, not Amway. They're trying to write a word document, not to join a cult.
FOSS is literally a political and ideological set of positions. The entire thing that makes Free Software and Open Source differentiated from just "normal" software development and distribution are a set of political and organisational positions, which are in limited fashion codified and expressed in software licenses, and also through e.g. structure of organisations around projects and why they're structured that way.
Without that, you just get companies making money from pawning off a portion of their development and infrastructure costs to volunteers and other organisations (non-profits, other companies, governments).
FOSS isn't about fandom of a particular piece of software.
This is absurdly politcally and socially naive. Also can we please ban stemlords from ascribing every aspect of politics and political advocacy to always being a cult.
You seem to have some reasonable points here but as you're resorting to lame ad hominems, you can bicker with yourself.
As a developer and maintainer of FOSS, you are a part of the problem I'm describing
lmao
all people who don't share my political naivety are "cultists"
invokes ad hominem so your argument is invalid
Perfect representation of STEMlord redditor.
The problem being we aren't all as absurdly shallow in our understanding of the world and politics as you are? Get your head out of your arse.
More of the same. Shocking.
Enjoy your day.