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But this became instantly obvious when (nearly) the first slide during the Opening Remarks shouted loudly: "Open Source has always been political". The emotional introduction instantly brought home what Open Source is really about: Activism to break the chains of "big tech". Although big tech wasn't so big when they started the conference over 25 years ago, it is now more required than ever.

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Open source is apolitical. The "open source is political" statement is a woke conflation of words. OSS is about freedom of usage. It's about giving the the user total control. The developer doesn't even force his version of the code on the user. Read Stallmans original GNU manifesto for example. The wording doesn't even take big tech, nazis or psychopaths into consideration. It's not about respect in general or healthy conversations. Even if you want it to be. That's something else. (I mention him because of the politeness problem) If it is anything close to political, it would be anarchistic. Don't constraint the user.