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.

has become

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

Everyday my longstanding hatred of DHH is proven correct. I never liked him or his ideas, and seeing his shitty-but-accepted ideas in full context did a lot to help me understand how fascism is more than just ideology: It's world view, it's practices, it's lifestyle.

It's nice that people are finally starting to write about what a coke fuelled POS DHH is. People within the Ruby community have known this for years. the fact that he is where he is because of some truly horrible PHP is mind boggling.

12 million seems like a LOT for any distro

Ffs i didn't know 1password an futo were also part of this. My employer uses 1password for everything, guess i have one more thing to be annoying about now.

Also fun how he "funds" Hyprland but then kinda expects the project to not have paid features anymore? That seems predatory

Open source fascism was not on my bingo card.

Is there a cheat sheet somewhere to know what projects are run by lunatics?

Well, shit, I'd only heard of vaxry because we seem to share an opinion on D-Bus.

'Hear hear', 'word!' and so on..

Btw. This is just one of the main paths to shape the public opinion/information space. They promote people and projects that align with their future, and hammers away on those that doesn't. That's all it takes. Do that 24/7 over years to a lifetime, and they can - and DO - beat activist voices/critique, and shape the opinions on everything from Academia, to Capitalist free market economics, to what human 'nature' is, to vilifying every ideological/scientific opponent so they can attack their enemies with no moral repercussions, and everything in between that suits them. Oh, and they own/control basically all western media and control/pay for their favourite 'NGO's like 'human rights' etc, that play into their hands, but really don't give 2 fcks about..

So, this is not just about enshittification/control of the open source world.

This whole western manipulation scheme is well-known, documented, and is also called "Manufacturing consent", "The Blue Church" etc, and you CANNOT escape it if you are not aware of it ! Unfortunately, the whole western hemisphere are under the influence of these sswipe pschos misinformation, and quickly goes into a fierce defence of the Epstein Oligarchs, their pet ideological substrate, and the 'truth' the oligarchs are disseminating through their own effing media. Did anyone really believe that actual events in the world would pass through oligarch/epstein owned media, and survive ?!? come ooon...

Educate your-self’s on how the Rich man's dictatorial empire actually works and break out before the Epstein cnts destroy our common future !!

This is just ONE of an ocean of studies/research done on the Merican Epstein empire: Colonization of the Mind -The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare - By Xinhua Institute. Search and read it without inherited bias. See if you can break out of the Epstein manufactured 'china-hate'..

I hate that any stance on one’s ethical position is considered political. It isn’t. It’s just ethics. One would hope the FOSS community would see this false “apolitical” narrative for the bullshit it is. Really bums me out when interesting projects get mired in this.

Anyone else know what's up with including Framework at the end of the post? That seemed to come out of left field. I checked and nowhere else in the article is it mentioned, so it's not clear at all what his beef with Framework is.