So, like, everyone's just totally alright with a floss bro calling himself "Dictator for Life" for 30 years and actually running his projects like a dictator? Weird.
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What I've seen over the years in open source is that everyone really only hates other people's fascism. Theirs is always totally alright and the best way to run a project. They'll rant about another project's name while they're rewriting all their code because a DFL told them to.
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Literally people have all the elements of fascism in their project: 1. Non-democratic elections. No, your 40 buddies with commit rights is not democratic. 2. Edicts demand full rewrites to satisfy the leaders. 3. The leaders literally are named Dictator for Life.
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4. Completely opaque accounting of money donated. 5. Only the dictator and his buddies have a say in what happens on the project. 6. Warping reality to suit the dictator's demands. "Church-Turing thesis? No, that's not a thing good follower." 7. Secret abuse of powers.
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8. Actual real coverups of sexual harassment scandals to protect the dictator's buddies. 9. People living in fear that if they tell anyone the dictator and his buddies will get them fired. 10. Frequent attacks of critics of the dictator by his followers. But yep, you're fine.
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In fact, I believe that authoritarianism is so pervasive in open source that people who chastise other projects are easily guilty of the exact same thing *and* are so woefully uneducated about authoritarianism that they don't even see their own guilt. Or...maybe they do see it.
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