I love how this is tagged telling people to use Linux instead, as if Linux isn’t the most widely used operating system in most militaries around the world for everything but drones to desktops to basically their entire server side infra.
Genocides night touch Microsoft and Apple software, but they definitely run on Linux.
Which isn’t to say that big tech is absolved btw but that hey maybe thinking open source is a panacea for technological abuses is maybe a bit misguided. If anything, it’s even better at doing horrendous things because it’s much less tied up in red tape.
@zkat @ml and real "open source" isn't allowed to bar use by groups of people or by particular industries ( https://opensource.org/osd ) so it's has the potential to be put to even less ethical uses than software outside this definition
military contractors, linux
@jokeyrhyme @zkat @ml I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the license is the least of the concerns here, honestly (especially since it's frequently ignored) - even on a *community* level there are entirely too many FOSS people who are completely okay with militaries and their contractors.
See also the thing with NixOS and Anduril - way too many people in the community, if not actively supportive of it, were arguing that it's not such a big deal or that we should all be 'neutral' about it (ie. do nothing), because we "shouldn't discriminate".
military contractors, linux
@joepie91 @jokeyrhyme @zkat @ml B-but the poor oppressed Military Industry Complex ;_;
I still find it fascinating how people don't get that "not being political" is itself an explicitly political decision.