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<title>FOSS on Joel Beckmeyer's Blog</title>
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<title>Consistency</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<author>joel@beckmeyer.us (Joel Beckmeyer)</author>
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<description><p>I&rsquo;ve seen a lot of talk about this stuff:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>&ldquo;Check out my FOSS project (hosted on Github)&rdquo;</li>
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<li>&ldquo;Wayland is a great innovation and boon to the community! Also, there are very few tools/alternatives available yet for your favorite X11 tool!&rdquo;</li>
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<li>&ldquo;We love open source! Also, we develop the most popular proprietary operating system!&rdquo;</li>
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<li>&ldquo;Do as I say, not as I do.&rdquo;</li>
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<p>We love to poke fun at and expose this kind of stuff, which is all fine and
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dandy. I think it&rsquo;s an interesting (and important) part of our humanity that
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this kind of thing bugs us so much. Think about that last point, which at least
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in my experience, is something I <em>loved</em> to fault authorities for.</p>
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<p>Hypocrisy is fun and also infuriating to uncover in others, but how often do
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we do a &ldquo;consistency check&rdquo; on ourselves? Is what we are saying evidenced by
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the rest of our actions?</p>
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<p>That&rsquo;s a hard look sometimes. I know it is for me, since I&rsquo;m <strong>very</strong> quick
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to judge others, but don&rsquo;t often think about how I fail at my own principles.</p>
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<p>Example: As a FOSS advocate, it&rsquo;s nearly natural to assume that everything will
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be better and easier with more people using FOSS. When evidence seems to point
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to the contrary (e.g. fighting with Matrix/Element to get it working for my
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family and friends), I don&rsquo;t own up to the fact that it isn&rsquo;t easier, and that
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is an actual problem.</p>
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<p>If we truly want to build a welcoming and wholesome community, let&rsquo;s be careful
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to do a consistency check to make sure nothing smells foul.</p>
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