I mean, find me a single American tech organisation that *isn’t* full of right wing libertarians.
That’s the secret lurking in open source - it’s actually a weird combo of gun-toting anti-government survivalists and radical progressives* who have managed for years to share some similar goals because politics wasn’t mentioned. But then software ate the world; software *is* politics, and vice versa.
* (I’m in the second camp, I’m sure the first camp would use different words for me.)
James Smith 💾
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