Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

I would just like to note that one workable definition of "politics" is "the way people relate to perceived groupings of other people". FOSS is full of "perceived groupings of other people" (kernel developers, GNOME developers, Debian users, Gentoo users, Freedom-maximalists, systemd lovers, systemd haters and more), and thus politics is an inevitable part of FOSS.

In turn, this means that attacking something as "politics" is basically a short hand for "you disagree with my classification of people into groups and/or my expectation of how those groups should behave", and is therefore not useful feedback. It's better to identify what specifically you object to.