• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
    151·
    5 months ago

    Everything is political. Bill gate’s letter to the hobbyist in the 70’s is a political pamphlet

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    Software meant to enrich its creator often isn’t because of the pervasive captialist fear of alienating someone by expressing an opinion on one side of an issue (edit: actually, against the mainstream narrative). However, formally verified, thoroughly-vetted, open source software (most of which doesn’t exist because of pushback from corrupt governments and their corporate overlords) tasked with upholding the anonymity and objectivity of democracy would be undeniably political.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    5 months ago

    Software is not political, it’s just code executing on a machine and doesn’t care what you believe.
    There is a lot of politics surrounding software.

    Politics is the tool we use, as a society, to decide how we’re going to run said society. There will be areas of politics where different factions will adopt different attitudes about different bits of software. So, some software will be politicized. But, the software itself is only political in so far as we are having political discussions around it, the software itself doesn’t care.

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      Software is not political, it’s just code executing on a machine and doesn’t care what you believe.

      You can’t convince me printer software/drivers/firmware doesn’t have an agenda. They work for every single test page any time or any where but you need to print something important they will riot.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        You can’t convince me printer software/drivers/firmware doesn’t have an agenda.

        Yes well, but they are coded by pure evil incarnate. Otherwise known as HP.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    5 months ago

    In what way? Software isn’t inherently political. The usage of software can be for political means

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    61·
    5 months ago

    Software inherently establishes an assumed level of control between the user and other entities. That baked in relationship can be influenced by politics.