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This is what software freedom means in concrete terms. I wonder if it will be easier to explain the principles of the FLOSS purists to the average person now that multiple facets of their lives are being meddled with by aggressively hostile software, and not just being stung now and then with dropped support, format lock-in, or forced obsolescence.

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CoC destroyed all of that. There has been nothing more effective at alienating the general public from open source than CoC. It worked exactly as the corporations behind it intended. CoC is so corrosive that instead of using BC and AD, there should be BCoc and ACoc when discussing the world of open source. There will be no "Normie Revolution" into the open source world until CoC is under control, which is exactly why it never will be under control. It serves its corporate masters extremely well and to the cheers of those who once upon a time were against corporate power.

What is CoC in this context?

"Don't be a dick to your fellow contributors" but spelled out in explicit detail because OSS attracts various degrees of neurodivergency and need social norms spelled out.

Especially evolving social norms like cut it with the replying "go make me a sandwich" to women like it's the late 90's.

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