GitHub considered harmful

[Douglas Summers]

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 12:03 +1100, Michael Gratton wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
> 
> On Wed, 9 Oct, 2019 at 17:24, Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net> 
> wrote:
> > While I will always back anyone who wants to speak their mind,
> > this 
> > list is no place for political discussion. Flatpak is software -  
> > hat's it, nothing more.
> 
> Leaving aside your other arguments without comment due to their lack
> of 
> merit, here you're just plain wrong.
> 
> Flatpak is Free Software, and Free Software is political movement.
> The 
> reason why Free Software like Flatpak exists is quite literally to 
> address the unethical behaviour of proprietary software companies by 
> providing a viable, libre alternative. Thus it is completely
> consistent 
> for Free Software projects to address ethical problems such as this
> one.

You do realize that people from all political backgrounds use FOSS,
right? And the same goes for Windows or Mac.

FOSS is a movement against the tyranny of the big boys, that I totally
agree with. But are you going to stop using Flatpak if you find out
that one of its creators donated to a candidate/cause you didn't agree
with? I could personally care less what Mr. Larsson does politically;
it won't affect my decision to use his software in the least.

As far as the "ethical" problems that you mentioned above, that is your
opinion, and you're completely entitled to it and I'm not going to
debate its merits with you. If you choose to stop using Github - or
Flatpak, if they refuse to move their hosting - then go for it.