FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect (opens in new tab)

Neither is.

But there are those who seek to destroy them by co-opting politics in.

Yes, it's cost freenode and many more scissions, X.org going crazy, discussing rolling back 1.5 years of commits just to eliminate a contributor from history, it's ridiculous.

There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.

Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.