Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <[email protected]> writes: > Quoting Konstantin Demin (2026-07-01 11:20:44)
>> I believe that the engineering culture in FOSS should strive to stay >> above political, religious, national, and other divisions. > It cannot. Yes. > By doing so, you are making a political statement. Your statement is: > the current situation is okay enough for me and that's why I will not go > out of my way to do something different. Yes. "Professionalism" is quite frequently a way to disguise conservatism by claiming that challenging the status quo is impolite and upsetting and therefore should not be done. This is a very political position. > We've had this discussion on this list a countless time before. You > cannot be "not political". And on the flip side, FOSS by itself is > *very* political. By contributing to FOSS you make a political statement > about how you believe we should work together to create something for > the benefit of everybody. That is political. > You make a political statement one way or the other. Saying "I'm not > political" *is* a political statement. Yes. Thank you. I wholeheartedly agree with what Josch says here. > P.S.: This email is *not* about whether or not I agree with the original > Ukranian flag thing. Likewise. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
