Why do evil programmers love open source software?

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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

By what criteria are you judging these programmers to be evil? Just because they are liberal does not necessarily make them evil.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They are evil in the sense that everything that they produce or like is bad. This includes politics, software, art, music, architecture, everything. In biblical terms, they are idolators. Their death would be nothing but a blessing to this world.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Perhaps there is some kind of dynamic there where people who have the time to write software for free have necessarily abandoned the responsibilities that good people take on. Perhaps they have abandoned the pursuit of a career, relationships, helping their families. And only in doing that can they have the time to be programmers.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I write open source software. Of course my software is hated by all modern scum, as I would expect. Anyway, everything produced by modern culture/scum is horrible, whether open source or not.