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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/12592
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I'm not a fan of people applying nationalism to open source software. I get this is a reaction to another country's nationalism but it really undermines what open source software is all about.
Yea, The Document Foundation is based in Germany. But Libre Office is an international collaborative open source project, with contributors in many countries.
Open source projects dont have a nationality. Even the ones with organisations based in the USA. And if people really are concerned about US based legal orgs then we should be looking at forking the software.
Its already under open source licences and belongs to everyone regardless of nationality.
TBH, as a New Zealander, highlighting that it's not based or of the US is a huge win.
I'll say, I feel this. I love FOSS, and I love the BuyEuropean movement as well, but I'm also always scared this will turn nationalistic, which I'm not a big fan of...
How would that work though? Nationalistic people tend to be anti-EU, no?
You're taking it too literally. I don't know if nationalists tend to be anti-EU, though you're right that a lot of them are, but I was using nationalistic there very loosely to refer to the negative aspects of nationalistic ideology as applied to Europe
and the EU, in particular.
That being said, it's very easy to get hooked into a Buy European craze and then shift into Buy YourNation, which can quickly turn into "We're better than everyone else and if you don't think that you're a traitor" and so on and so on...
Eh I just don't see it.. There are just too many ideological conflicts between being nationalist/myNation and being motivated in participating in the avoid USA movement in the first place. The way I see it, they are direct opposite crowds.
For example, do you think Canadians are in danger of going full nationalist because they are avoiding usa products now because Trump wants to make them 51st state?
If anything, it's mostly a liberal movement.
Precisely my feelings. I hope it doesn't turn out to in the negative way, but I'm afraid of some of the vitriol I'm seeing already
Uuuh this is about closed source Microsoft Office Vs open source Libre Office which just happen to be from Germany and thus is the reason why this is posted in this community.
They're replying because of OP's comment "based in Germany"