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Sadly there are many people in the open source community who don't care, to them if the software is good then it doesn't matter who the artist is.
Specifically with the Linux community I feel like it's half queer people and half middle aged men and the other half often doesn't care and likely lean right wing or libertarian anyway.
That's my opinion at least. Tons of people still use and recommend Proton even though its founder and owner is toxic and harmful to queer people as well.
Have you tried to use only products made by nice guys or nice companies? It's impossible.
It's also a bit ironic to post this opinion on Lemmy, whose creators are also bigots.
Imo theres a massive diffrence between using a massive companys software that only runs on their servers and generates money for them, and a completly FOSS tiling desktop that the creator almost quit because they get literally nothing from people using the code. The entire point of open source is to make software that benefits everyone nomatter the original creators views
I get the aspect that usage of open source projects don’t necessarily benefit their dev (for better or worse), but at the end of the day promotion of a software is still promotion of its dev (even if to a much smaller degree) and consequently their reach. I can understand why people like the op would have issues with it being actively recommended.
Gabe Newell is toxic and harmful?
Proton the email service.