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Why are you morons trying to make me try Omarchy? I wouldn't really care about that distro without all the idiotic whining.

DHH is calling you clowns. Good job proving his point.

I've Omarchy installed in one of my laptops & I'm going to keep using it. If you have a problem with politics, you shouldn't be using iPhones for similar reasons. Steve jobs was worse & he drove people to delete themselves.

As long as you have nothing to say about Apple/boycott Apple, I'm disregarding your takes on Omarchy.

So nobody who make things cannot have an opinion anymore? Grow up.

Everywhere I look in these threads I see accusations of “far-right”, “racist”, “Nazi”, “fascist”, etc, coming from people who seem to me to be in support of equally extremist views such as communism, sexual sterilization of minors, unchecked mass migration, and other objectively destructive social, political and economic views. You’re all standing in glass houses lobbing stones without the slightest bit of self-awareness of the sheer hypocrisy involved.

Not all of us who work in tech are so thoroughly indoctrinated with far left ideology that we can’t see the reality on the ground in our own homelands and develop an informed opinion on it. The bottom line is, whatever projects you’re involved with could just as easily become the target of this same kind of purity test that you’re all trying to enforce. There’s not much stopping any given software project from being forked and taken over by new management once enough people get sick of the ideologues who’ve positioned themselves as self-proclaimed moral gatekeepers.

Meanwhile the beauty of FLOSS in itself is that it is (at least was until fairly recently) effectively borderless, allowing people from vastly different cultures, backgrounds and political affiliations, to all collaborate on producing great products made freely available to everyone. By its nature it transcends and transgresses all these artificial boundaries and flies in the face of the politics we’re always told should divide us as human beings. It’s well past time everyone spits out their respective koolaid and is reminded of that fact. FLOSS is a bridge which brings us together and helps us overcome our differences through shared labors of love. Those who try to inject division and discord into that ethos have no rightful place among us.

"How dare people I don't like give away software"

A political analysis of the founders and leadership behind every product you use must be an exhausting way to live your life.

Unless you propose to gather all those somewhere and "deal with them", the far-right people are still people. And if they’re not breaking the law, they should enjoy all possible social activities and the fruits of their labor etc. Basically whatever every living human would want and be deserving of.

Your asking is unreasonable. And we all know that if the far-right people are excluded, they’ll just make a "better" Linux community elsewhere. Then the whining will be about them not letting any of the extremists far-left fury Marxists on it ever again.

Also, this hyperbolic inflation of ad hominem "fascist" labeling just makes the word lose its meaning, and makes people lose their respect/belief in what you're saying. If you want to have a rational discussion using critical thinking, attack the argument not the person. Define words before using them. Tell us what "fascist" means to you, and why you think it applies in this context. Then listen to what people say and try to understand their perspective before writing them off as some kind of lost cause.

If instead you're not interested in a debate, you've already made up your mind and believe there can be no other valid perspectives, well, then maybe you weren't looking for truth OR intelligence in the first place. As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

I honestly don't see why any of this should stop someone from using the software.

It's open source. If you don't like DHH, his politics, or the people funding Omarchy, then don't give them money. Don't donate, don't sponsor them, don't contribute upstream.

But the code is out there under the MIT license. Anyone can use it, change it, remove whatever they don't like, or fork the whole thing.

Using a piece of open-source software doesn't mean you endorse the politics of whoever wrote it. If that were the standard, we'd probably have to audit the personal beliefs of thousands of developers before installing anything.

And if people really think Omarchy has become some political project, then fork it. Change the branding, change the maintainers, change whatever you want. That's literally one of the reasons open source is useful.

Boycotting companies you don't want to financially support is one thing. Treating open-source code itself as politically contaminated is another, and I don't think that makes much sense.