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.

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.

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
    161·
    1 day 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.caEnglish
      3·
      7 hours 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.

    • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comEnglish
      34·
      17 hours 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✨.

        • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
          21·
          10 hours ago

          Your submission in “Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH” was removed for Please, do not antagonize other users in this way on Ghazi. .

        • ルルㇲ@retrofed.comEnglish
          21·
          12 hours ago

          You can call Nazis Nazis, and not dehumanize. The word “Nazi” has all the connotations it needs all on its own. Read my bio if you’re confused about who I am kind to, and who I make fertilizer powder with.

          Have you read how to deal with Nazis? Or is another OP Paperclip in order🙃?

          I am also quite older than 15日.

          それともナチスをコンポストにできない理由でもあるの？