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@doctormo@floss.social"we are possessed by our societies ... I find it too unpleasant to deviate from what my culture tells me is normal ... vegans will tell you the harder part of their diet isn't the diet is dealing with other people's responses to it."
- Hank Green
This is insightful to us in the #openSource community. The struggle is usually not the software, it's dealing with other people's responses to our decision to deviate from their cultural norms.
@doctormo Yes. There's a reason we kinda come off a little bit cult-y to people who are not familiar with FOSS, and that can be annoying to them. Much like I often get annoyed in conversation with a preachy vegan. It's nobody's fault, really, we're just possessed by different memes.
@doctormo More than my choce of software, I feel this with my choice of entertainment,,, Though in both cases it takes some will power to resist others thinking I'm "missing out" when I could flip that complaint around!
@doctormo This was my experience as a vegan too. It was as though I was a threat to their ability to continue to eat meat. They took my choice about what I ate personally. Though as a Free Software and Linux developer it’s more like people just relate to me as weird.