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Is Software Political? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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.