A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I was summoned to participate in a jury of my peers: I have to go to jury duty as a member of this democracy. what if I had a summons to contribute to open source software becaus...

A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I was summoned to participate in a jury of my peers:

I have to go to jury duty as a member of this democracy. what if I had a summons to contribute to open source software because I use FOOS?

  • Rokin@leminal.space
    2·
    8 hours ago

    That’s too harsh. They are sharing their thoughts on their personal website. No one needs to do anything here.

    Also, as a person who believes that all software should be free, I don’t think that is an objectively stupid idea.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I agree, and do regret the harshness of my initial response.

      I thought about editing or removing the response, but we did have some follow up in the thread (where I qualified some of my reasons), so I thought it better to leave me being a dick to a stranger untouched in that whole context. It opens up further discussion from others and serves to remind me to take a breath to consider why others post idealistic, well meaning content.

      Not everyone’s had their idealism battered out of them by greedy companies and stupid managers yet. 😅