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You don’t need to follow the news cycle to use an operating system.
by manuelabeledo 7mo ago
You don’t need to follow the news cycle to use an operating system.
- user3939382 7mo agoI do follow the news cycle and if I’m hearing about a software package in it, something is wrong with the people making the software and I don’t trust them. Software is an engineering discussion or at least it’s supposed to be. Here’s my community guidelines: everyone be nice and respectful engage in good faith and focus on the math. Being social is fine so long that it doesn’t become a diversion from the engineering discussion. We’re talking about code not a philosophical treatise. There are civil ways to settle disagreements. I’m so sick to death of the politics.
- manuelabeledo 7mo agoIt sounds like software projects are built by humans. Nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re assuming here that the BSD community is free from that.
- user3939382 7mo agoThe engineers I’ve worked with my whole career had no problem getting the work done without getting into giant political debates. If your politics comes before the engineering I don’t want anything to do with it.
- manuelabeledo 7mo agoCan you give any examples of the type of politics that ruined XOrg or Linux?
- user3939382 7mo agoGuy tells you he dislikes political discussions around engineering so you ask to engage in exactly that discussion?
- manuelabeledo 7mo agoI’m just trying to understand exactly what led you to make that decision. I don’t follow tabloid style news around software projects, maybe I’m missing on something.