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   Alex McLean (yaxu@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 00:20:59 JST Alex McLean

   Sure, it's not good to worship tech figureheads and furnish them with narcissistic supply. For similar reasons it's also not good to abandon free/open source tech just because someone associated with it has done something bad.
   I'm still going to be self-hosting wordpress, even though someone I've never heard of is suing someone else. I'm also going to be continuing to use the GPL/AGPL license despite one of the authors saying questionable things about paedophilia etc.
   I just think it's best to stop associating works placed in the commons with individuals.

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     pulusound (ahihi@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 00:21:20 JST pulusound

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     @yaxu i broadly agree, but in the case of WP i think its more about the fact that Matt has demonstrated the central plugin repo cannot really be trusted anymore