Like, we know the parameters of what we have. We know the water in which we swim, sort of. But what might have happened if the movement hadn’t been led by a bunch of dudes with terrible opinions, poor impulse control, and major anger issues?
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For a long time the tacit understanding was that behaviors like those were somehow either unavoidably linked to a particular kind of software genius, or were maybe even necessary to drive a movement forward against a lot of external opposition.
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Clearly that’s terribly naive thinking, at best. But that myth is so widespread and so unexamined that it will continue to persist for quite some time to come, at least until historians of technology finish debunking it. (Ppl like
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In any case, as a user I can state definitively that free and/or open software has been incredibly useful to me, but *only* because I have enough training and troubleshooting skill to be able to approach its generally shitty behavior and nonexistent documentation as an engineer.
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Its core ethos — for *decades* — was quite literally “FUCK YOU FIGURE IT OUT OR FIX IT YOURSELF” and as both a user and someone who tries to make technology for other people to use, I find that profoundly depressing.
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And it seems to me that that attitude was toxic enough to have heavily damaged anyone who came into contact with it, even those of us smart enough to actually be able to cope with it.
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It takes so much more discipline and brilliance to make software actually usable and well-documented and kind to its users. We’ve lost so much time to self-appointed leaders who scoffed at that notion.
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