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   kazé (fabi1cazenave@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 15:33:25 JST kazé

   Apparently, a MAGA idiot has forked XFree, and the first thing has been to add a anti-DEI statement in the new README:
   https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commit/715a6335dcc2d2534fdd62dd21bf7863b53f57ae

   He’s known to have been kicked by Linus Torvalds for spreading antivax theories in the kernel ML:
   https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/

   And sadly, there seems to be quite a few idiots supporting him:
   https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

   I guess true MAGA people should stick to #XLibre from now on. 🙃

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 15:33:24 JST Brodie Robertson

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     @fabi1cazenave I think the messaging of the Readme does nothing but harm the project, for what could otherwise be a really interesting split

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     kazé (fabi1cazenave@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jun-2025 15:33:25 JST kazé

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     • Brodie Robertson

     My bad, it’s not just a MAGA-fork (à la Redot) as I thought. Here’s @BrodieOnLinux’s take on this in case you’ve missed it.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCU4W5Ab33c

     I’m still horrified by the number of morons supporting this anti-DEI take:

     https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

     It’s not about politics, it’s about basic human decency, that’s obviously fascist whistle-blowing, and that should never be OK in a FOSS project.