Just quoting the readme so there’s no misinterpretation:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.
It doesn’t matter which country you’re coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you’re furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who’s interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
So, you comdemn all the project because its founder just happened to have an opinion you don’t like about a topic
completely disconnected from the software world ?
The anti DEI stuff is in the project readme and the anti vax bullshit was on the lkml. So I think the auther can not keep his ‘opinions’ and politics out of his projects.
If he uses his software work to promote potentially dangerous believes, I don’t think the project should be supported or promoted
So far, his alleged opinions are more spread out by his detractors than by himself. Imo, this project brings more diversity of choice in the foss world, and that’s a good thing. I have nothing against wayland, but a de facto monopoly is never desirable.
Tbh, I’m far more concerned by the hostility to this fork.
His opinion is literally on the frontpage of his project on github, there is nothing ‘alleged’ about it. I don’t think the project can be separated from his opinions
The readme seems to contradict itself, the second part of Leny’s quote looks like real DEI.
Hence we can assume that the first DEI entrance is dei-as-implemented-by-xorg-team, which
he obviously doesn’t like. Simple assumption, the best would be to ask him.
This isn’t coherent, and even if it was, the burden of stance interpretability is context-dependent.
He is the one with the politically charged README that reads plainly like the thoughtless garbage MAGA types in America put out. I mean cmon man, “[…] we’ll make X great again”?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his “detractors” (and who would not become a “detractor”, after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
These are not alleged opinions, he’s just full of shit.
And this isn’t even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
There are already many different compositors that implement the Wayland protocol, and there are also many 3rd party extensions! Can you think of a single, material benefit to simply having different basic desktop protocols?
Found the useful idiot. You’re willfully ignoring the racist dogwhistles. That either makes you a supporter or a fellow traveler. Either way, you’re complicit and not innocent.
Yeah very recently, by a guy who says it is explicitly anti “DEI” in the readme and thinks there is some kind of conspirancy by IBM to kill Xorg
Just quoting the readme so there’s no misinterpretation:
Also the guy got told off by Linus Torvalds for being an anti-vaxxer https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
So imo this isn’t a project that should be supported
So, you comdemn all the project because its founder just happened to have an opinion you don’t like about a topic completely disconnected from the software world ?
The anti DEI stuff is in the project readme and the anti vax bullshit was on the lkml. So I think the auther can not keep his ‘opinions’ and politics out of his projects. If he uses his software work to promote potentially dangerous believes, I don’t think the project should be supported or promoted
So far, his alleged opinions are more spread out by his detractors than by himself. Imo, this project brings more diversity of choice in the foss world, and that’s a good thing. I have nothing against wayland, but a de facto monopoly is never desirable. Tbh, I’m far more concerned by the hostility to this fork.
His opinion is literally on the frontpage of his project on github, there is nothing ‘alleged’ about it. I don’t think the project can be separated from his opinions
The readme seems to contradict itself, the second part of Leny’s quote looks like real DEI. Hence we can assume that the first DEI entrance is dei-as-implemented-by-xorg-team, which he obviously doesn’t like. Simple assumption, the best would be to ask him.
This isn’t coherent, and even if it was, the burden of stance interpretability is context-dependent.
He is the one with the politically charged README that reads plainly like the thoughtless garbage MAGA types in America put out. I mean cmon man, “[…] we’ll make X great again”?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his “detractors” (and who would not become a “detractor”, after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
As in, for instance, the original source of his garbage antivax posturing that he posted in the linux kernel mailing list: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04542.html .
These are not alleged opinions, he’s just full of shit.
And this isn’t even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
There are already many different compositors that implement the Wayland protocol, and there are also many 3rd party extensions! Can you think of a single, material benefit to simply having different basic desktop protocols?
Found the useful idiot. You’re willfully ignoring the racist dogwhistles. That either makes you a supporter or a fellow traveler. Either way, you’re complicit and not innocent.