[OSGeo-Discuss] Activist campaign of open source projects to protest against policies of the US government

[Antonovic P. Milan]

Hello everyone. sorry but I completely disagree with you. Pushing a diverse
and multicultural community to agree on a political point of view can lead
to divisions, wasted time and distraction from OSGeo's real needs. Asking
to "not be indifferent" is a well known polarizing technique. Attempts to
oversimplify the complexity of reality without even trying to acknowledge
that there are different opinions and interests, obstructs the pursuit of
truth and disrespects those who value critical thinking.

I believe that the OSGeo Community shall focus on bringing our beautiful
software to THE NEXT LEVEL and not playing the same games that are used by
the "market economy or capitalism".

Let's find ways that have a real impact by concrete examples of openness,
friendship and community!  Let's try to be better than them!

✊ Viva Open Source Software ✊
This is just my 2 cents point of view, don't take it personally..

Milan

For example 👇👇👇  @Luí­s Moreira de Sousa this attitude does not belong
to the open source spirit

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Il giorno dom 23 feb 2025 alle ore 19:14 Luí­s Moreira de Sousa via Discuss
<discuss at lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:

> Dear Even,
>
> when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that everything
> we do in life is political. I am not certain such direct confrontation is
> the best way to dissuade regular folk from voting for autocratic movements,
> but doing something is certainly better than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite
> project, for instance, is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed
> to give advice on the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project
> for little influence on the public discourse.
>
> Take care.
>
> P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US
> government, to what open source is concerned, the CRA still appears to me
> as the greatest challenge in the coming years.
>
> [0] https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html
>
> --
> Luís Moreira de Sousa
> Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa
> URL: https://ldesousa.codeberg.page
>
> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email.
>
> On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss <
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to join the
> protest against the US government stupid, cruel and dangerous politics that
> affect the whole world ?
>
> I've initiated the move with GDAL (
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865 , with follow ups in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875,
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876,
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877) , and also pushing for PROJ (
> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406) , MapServer (
> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233) and GEOS (
> https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243) .
>
> Anyone else ?
>
> I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our projects only
> make sense in the context of a free society, and this freedom is at high
> stake. We have admittedly little power, but we can and should exercise it
> with the tools at our disposal. The addition of small little acts might end
> up having visible consequences.
>
> Even
>
> --http://www.spatialys.com
> My software is free, but my time generally not.
> Note to current US government: stop messing with the world!
>
>
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