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That you assume anyone who is even slightly hesitant to agree with you is a bad person is exactly the reason political statements, as good-intentioned as they may be, put people off.

I don’t need an extra risk when choosing a tool. A divisive political statement, like it or not, is an extra risk.

I agree with your point in general and dislike political drama which is often a headache, but people are starving and dying and being held hostage out there... so I don't really think this is the time where that sentiment is appropriate.

Some decades from now, a gesture like this might be seen as similar to Bram's fundraising for Uganda (Vim's start-up screen) which is worthy of appreciation too. Most likely, a negative reaction to this is because it's an emotionally charged topic in the news and on social media.

I'm sure their great people and they're entitled to their opinion, but this language looks like it wants full control of your entire tech stack. And if they one day decided to do some political activism and run malicious code that targets you or delete their codebase, you would be 100% at their mercy. It wouldn't be the first time it happened either, like with the npm libraries left-pad, faker.js, and node-ipc.

We're changing the license! Not because of this, but I guess it addresses it.

I think reasonable people can disagree and debate about what is happening in Israel. It's not a topic I want a banner splashed across the top when I'm considering a new language or SaaS product.

The doctrine of not caring what the companies are doing with their time/technology is how we got IBM.

One that doesn't like

> Front-and-center political takes

They said that right up front.

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