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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.

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[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Something that’s interesting is that this $12 million is made up of all individual donations from his rich friends, but he still lists the companies they founded.

A total conflation of people and their companies.

Everyone listed here is subhuman. This is a who’s who of mediocre tech douchebags.

Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
“Yours truly”

Wow, you scored your partner at 37Signals AND yourself? So impressive.

DHH has always been a duchebag and should be avoided at all costs.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are actual corporate sponsors listed now: 37signals, which maybe isn't surprising with two individual sponsors being from there, and then 1Password for some reason.

[-] fr0g@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Jack Dorsey, Block Head

Sounds about right

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Of all of these, cloudflare is the only one really hard to avoid.

Especially because of all their free tier stuff :'(

I guess if you use their services and never pay it is maybe moral? Idk.

Their "free" stuff has the hidden cost of killing competition who can't throw money away to fund anticompetitive practices. The entire modern internet was conquered by oligarchs with that strategy. It's how everything became owned by a few enshittified companies.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

That is a good point :(

[-] arules@retrofed.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

subhuman

Nazi slur🚩

should be avoided at all costs.

that grants them a pass to continue sending people to deathcamps & Bibi‘s war. They should be 🌈composted✨.

[-] arules@retrofed.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

has become

Nah you🫵 ignored the signs. I witnessed them since [redacted for safety purpose]. Your choice, your reap.

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