Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that treat marginalized contributors as political, and why a united boycott of complicit tech companies is our only way forward.
If you pay a nazi to bake you a pizza, you may have gotten a pizza you need to live, but you’ve also paid a nazi.
And when there are also 19 other pizzamakers, who aren’t nazis, then it’s not all that strange for people to think it’s a bad thing when you get your pizza from a nazi.
Do you pay for your open source code? I don’t.
Someone paid 12 million
And interestingly enough, the people with money all seem to go to the nazi pizzamaker