Giacomo Tesio (giacomo@snac.tesio.it)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 21:17:18 JST
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Indeed if you were leading #Guix, I'd likely be a user and contributor (I think you know I have the technical skills required).
And I also know other people working there, people I respect despite not being always aligned with their opinion (for example I had a long debate with a friend that work on Guix a few months ago about the right to be mentioned with the preferred name by a transitioned trans developer whose code was archived with their dead-name and #SoftwareHeritage was refusing to update. I think hackers have the right to be named as they wish in their works and no script, tool or hash chain matter more than this right).
Yet there's a huge difference between a technical or even philosophical argument and a (politically motivated) personal attack in form of a shitstorm.
Courtès might even be the best #scheme hacker out there, with a solid architectural vision of how to make #linux more reliable.
But I chose free software for political goals that he actively damaged with that attack to RMS.