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> "Incorrect, there is no political message. You may dream one up to satisfy your desire that everything must always be rooted in politics, but there really isn't one."

> "he idea "I wish my political ideology was more prevalent, so I'll just throw some code onto the Internet" was not in my mind."

@tyil What you say here is the very crux of our disagreement, a good way to summarize your point of view.

You say you have no political motivation to the code you produce. And yet you choose to use the GPL. You choose to exercise your political rights to share code and to use it. You chose to enjoy the copyright and information property laws that have been afforded to you by other political activists who have won those rights for you.

I am not accusing you of anything other than mere ignorance. You are like a fish in water: you do not know the existence of water, and I am trying to explain to you that water exists. You say "I keep inventing politics where there is none to suit my narrative," I am telling you water exists and you couldn't do what you do without it.

And then when you encounter an air breather (so to speak), someone who disagrees with your politics, suddenly you might think this person is introducing politics into a situation where there was none.

My narrative, the reason I bother trying to explain this to you, is that I hope when you see political disagreement expressed in the comment threads on software projects, don't be so quick to accuse a person of "bringing politics into a situation where there was none." Often times the politics did exist but you simply hadn't recognized it. So please, continue to be respectful (and you have been, thank you), but also try to give the benefit of the doubt for people who introduce political discussions into your "apolitical" space, they may have noticed something that you had not.