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@SuperDicq I don't agree with that and I've never been a fan of people inserting politics into software, I find it all performative along with the witch-hunt against him. I do think that he's said weird ass things and I think that people are too willing to coddle grown ass autistic men over standing up against rape culture and violence against women.

I still appreciate his contributions and use a lot of software he's written, but it doesn't mean I can't be disappointed as a woman because of the things he's said. I will admit the statements he made about Epstien's victims isn't unique and is a common viewpoint in the states. We literally had a president saying "grab em' by the pussy". Not to mention the article about Elon's inappropriate behavior with employees but that doesn't get as much attention as things RMS has written about.

I haven't contributed to free software, but I hope to contribute someday and maybe publish my own projects. I think that any focus on the free software community as being a hostile environment towards women is extremely insincere considering my experiences in corporate environments and academia. It's not different than performative people on mastodon writing off Pleroma. I wish that the Void devs didn't have public meltdowns like the guy from Graphene, but I'll still use their software. Pretty sure Debian had some random racist shit in the codebase for a while too. Nobody is writing off Debian and all it's derivative distributions.

I stopped using GitHub for a myriad of reasons, including Microsoft's involvement with ICE as a proud central american woman and daughter of immigrants. How many projects by so-called activists are currently on GitHub? It's all performative. I wish these people would shut up and actually listen to what women are actually saying. I know few women who are in tech, let alone devs who give a fuck about RMS. I'm just being honest.