1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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morals should stay out of software,the ability to use the software to do anything is one of the benefits of open source licenses even if the creator doesn’t approve of using it to bombpesky former land occupiers.
Ideally, yes, and I would never promote banning Nazis from posting their code. In practice, however, it is usually less bother to go with a creator following an ideology not historically prone to slipping nasty surprises into their products.
Sure, those nasty surprises will be found, it’s the entire point of FOSS, but it always takes time.
Make a fork.