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As is the rest of society. There’s nothing about IT that would make it more likely to attract left wing folks. There is that for FOSS specifically, but a huge part of the IT sector only consumes FOSS products without ever giving back.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
FOSS also attracts right wing libertarians

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- trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  True, but by its nature of sharing more left wingers than other fields of IT
  
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- RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Why would Libertarians use FOSS, giving away things goes against the central ethos of profits over everything.
  
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  - tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.
    
    I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though, ~~so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companies~~ because something about the NAP and not restricting freedom ~~including the freedom to be exploited~~.
    
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Have you heard of lunduke?
    
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