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"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint (vitalik.eth.limo)

submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author's response to most concerns regarding open source?

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Especially in public life (government, etc), open source should be a default. The only exception I can think of is where there is no open source project serving a need but a proprietary one does.

But we need to go further than open source and practice ethical technology. If there is overlap between open source and evils like fascism and genocide*, then we are fostering an “open source” practice that serves the privileged.

*Microsoft, Google, etc