2026-11-08 14:42 UTC
@Gargron@mastodon.social clearly unethical, but isn't his point that GNU's ethical mission has a limited scope (namely, software freedom, copyright, user privacy, etc)?
If you filtered source code contributions along every single moral dimension, you would end up with pretty much nothing at the intersection.
Think of all the scientific discoveries and tech invented by horrible people or horrible regimes. What matters to scientists is that the science is good. Historians and tribunals can judge the rest.
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@bronsen@geraffel.social 2026-11-08 14:50
@isacdaavid@mathstodon.xyz @Gargron@mastodon.social less horrible people will have scienced the discovery, and will have written the patches, instead. We do not need to accept the contributions of horrible people.