Hi Roberto, On 25.03.21 18:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I understand that it is not always possible to be completely apolitical, > even for Debian as an organization. Pretty much everything Debian does is political. Free software enables users' technical autonomy, and this completely shifts power dynamics, to the extent that it allows communities that aren't served by software and service providers to organize themselves. This shift is a political process, and it is one explicitly desired. The same communities give us feedback and also contribute back, and the "technical" decisions we make based on that also have political consequences. Communities with opposing political goals also make technical recommendations that have political effects, and we'd do our users a great disservice if we ignored that. If the NSA suggests a random number generator, that is a political action. Scrutinizing it is a political action. Shipping cryptographic software is a political action. We wouldn't take a "neutral" stance there, even though it is only tangentially related to free software, because our priorities are "free software and our users." Likewise, the free software community is a large part of what our users come into contact with, and the conditions they find there will determine the outcome for them. That, too, is part of our core mission, closer to it in fact than the question of availability and security of cryptographic software, and neither can we ignore it nor is there a neutral option nor would a neutral option if it existed be in the interest of our users. Simon
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