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date: 2021-03-23T16:35:53.506-07:00
category:
  - opensource
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> You can’t separate the software from the community that built it. Therefore, true openness must dictate how that community is formed and run. We are what we choose to tolerate; in the same way that free software communities do not tolerate proprietary lock-in, they should not tolerate exclusionary social practices that lock people out.

— [Ben Werdmüller, Equitable Community Software](https://werd.io/view/6059763f4ea26f3b732a4f02)