SVU's blog

05 May 2004

Uraeus, you are 101% right. Free software does carry values. And people doing it have their values. Being absolutely politically correct would mean having NO values but politicall correctness (because for virtually any other value there can be contra-value – and people which share it). So free software cannot be 100% political correct – because at that point contributors would have to “drop” their ideas, printiples in favor of political correctnes (which is ok for commercial world where people can be payed for it). And – if so – the good problem for GNOME to solve would be to find the margin of “reasonable political correctness” where people would still feel they don’t have to trait their values, their POVs – and where the software would be still ideologically-acceptable for a large audience (which does not necessarily mean 100% of potential users).