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Is Software Political? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.world 1 points 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.