• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    It’s a fact of life that politics permeates everything, nothing is in isolation of the political climate it exists within.

    The state of the world today is a function of the politics that got us here, a big change in world politics can have dramatic and far reaching effects.

    A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day—which is unfortunately not the case in a lot of countries currently.

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      A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day

      Bullshit. There’s no reason people with political differences can’t collaborate on the same project, unless those differences are really huge.

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        20 days ago

        Politics is not just the relationship between two people, it’s the relationship between a person and everyone/everything else in the world.

        Reducto ad absurdum: would you suggest a world where every country is at war with everyone else would foster a better environment for global FOSS collaboration than one where the world was at complete peace?

        I honestly thought the statement you quoted was entirely uncontroversial. “Healthy” and “global” being the key words, I’m not saying it’s a requirement for FOSS to exist in general or anything.

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        20 days ago

        @0x0 @9point6 That’s my take and the universal betterment of mankind that results will bring people closer together. You might even realize someone not sharing your viewpoint is just as human.