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I think it’s just horrible news that the far right is able to concentrate a lot of capital into building their own orgs so that they can bypass and effectively do a coup on institutions they dislike, not for technical reasons but because those institutions are too trans, woke, and brown.

Like this is just transparently not good. I doubt most of this money will result in large investments in long lasting Linux desktop projects. It’ll be a means to capture the entire ecosystem. It’s bad in the same way that X.com or Truth Social are bad.

It’s a deliberate attempt to undermine decades of community organizing by pouncing on all its weak spots. Not to improve them, but to replace them, so that now there is a place that is oops-all-Lunduke.

It’s closely tied to people doing sustained harassment campaigns on women and trans people in FOSS. There’s no way in hell this is a good thing unless you consider your most racist coworker getting paid to shill for DHH is a good thing.

They don’t want women and gay people and trans people and brown people in open source. They’re doing this so that they never have to interact with undesirables. They are Nazis. It’s not ambiguous. This is a platform for far right mobilization.