Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that treat marginalized contributors as political, and why a united boycott of complicit tech companies is our only way forward.
Another person who turns “people like omarchy and invest in it but the guy who created it is racist” into “People are normalizing fascism”. Hell even the blogger this blogger linked to had no idea this David guy was racist until he looked it up.
so yes omarchy is ran by a racist dickhead but people arent supporting him. seriously people. life isnt that complicated.
person who manages dell’s donations: "hey michael dell. the creator of ruby on rails created a new linux distro thats geared towards non tech people and it runs great on our dell laptops. he setup a foundation to support the distro. do you want to donate to it? "
michae dell: “sure, sounds good”
… that’s how it goes. its not more complicated than that.
That is not how it goes when millions of dollars are involved 🤦
But even if it was, not caring who you give money to is not is not a defence against supporting fascism.
How is corporations donating millions of dollars to a fascist not normalizing the ideology?
It’s not a foundation. It COULD HAVE been one but in typical coke fuelled ranting DHH fashion he blogged about how the money would go towards marketing thus, womp womp, no tax exempt foundation for you buddy.