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That blog post strongly implies (though doesn’t explicitly say) he’s the author, and links to a git repo for the site on SourceHut that is under his own account.

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Feels a bit off to have a self-serving link to your own project and not mention it somewhere as disclosure.

Nothing wrong about a self-serving link but not disclosing it that seems a bit off to me.

Wait…it’s his own blog on his own website… isn’t writing about your own projects kind of the point in that context? What about this is “self-serving” in a way that requires disclosure???

Not sure how this comes across as self-serving or what the nature of this protest is, but if you explain it in more detail perhaps I can make a correction.

Sorry if this came off as a protest. It is not a protest. Maybe I am overthinking this but creating this page (which is a great idea) and then have a link from it point back to sourcehut (which is an open source business of yours IIRC) seems a bit off. It wouldn't be a lot of trouble to disclose the connection between the author of this page and the owner of sourcehut, would it? I think it'd be nice to do it so that it does not look like you are using the agenda of promoting free software to also promote your own open source business.

I dunno, it's just a place to store the code, and SourceHut is itself free software. I could put it on Codeberg or something, I guess, but it doesn't really seem like a big deal. Never heard anyone criticize the FSF or GNU for their use of savannah.gnu.org.

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