> We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to).
> I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.
What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:
“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”
@kinetix i wish this came out before i bought my framework laptop. this is what it must feel like to be an early tesla owner. it’s not a good feeling. #framework#dhh
#TIL beside #DHH, the #CEO of #Vercel is also completely nuts. And while I do not use anything related to former, I have hosted everything on latter. 😭 Long weekend ahead...
Similary, I see people push #Omarchy as if politics were irrelevant.
They are VERY MUCH relevant, and we absolutely should not give people who are "borderline far-right" (I'm not going to write what I want to write, because I can't afford those lawyers, form your own opinion and all that) more influence.
At a stretch, tech might be somewhat neutral.
Who we chose to be in a community with fucking isn't.
So it was a self-coup backed by a billionaire fascist after all.
｢ Shopify demanded that Ruby Central take full control of the RubyGems GitHub repositories and the bundler and rubygems-update gems, threatening to withdraw funding if Ruby Central did not comply ｣
｢ I get that doing so is an incredibly difficult decision to make, but people have had years to distance themselves from this man. But they don’t, so Ruby and Rails continue to be directed by far-right sympathizers like DHH and Tobi Lütke (and their money). And all of this is allowed because Ruby and Rails have a code of conduct that purposefully falls prey to the paradox of tolerance ｣