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I mean currently I see it alot with people trying to make forks of OSS just because of there political stand. I mean the reason to leave software should be because it is bad quality not because of someone. I mean why are you not open to people having different beliefs on something.

So whats next? No software made by christians. I am not trying to justify devs actions but most of these movements act like sofware is used only in US and EU regions. I mean why are you forcing people to move from twitter because you do not like elon musk.

I see this also in the linux community and alot of OSS projects its being pushed.

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> EU regions

Which ones exactly? I live in an EU country (part time anyway) and DHH's views would be considered centrist at most...

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> So whats next? No software made by christians.

Well, Matz is a devout Mormon, so hopefully all the crazy people realize this and just leave the Ruby community and ecosystem.

Also, I wish these people would just fork and be done with it. Instead they try to bully others on social media.

can't pinpoint it. But I simply mentioned countries who have this sort of "left wing" vs "right wing" thing.

> DHH's views would be considered centrist at most

That's not very accurate.

Come to the Eastern part of the EU lol... It's an understatement if anything.

OSS is a bit different because of the lack of profit-making, so I'm excluding that in my comment here.

In general, I don't think there's anything at all wrong with deciding that the goals a person or company is working towards are so objectionable to you that you don't want to contribute to their income streams and thereby support those goals.

I mean it's divisive. When you divide people up, it creates more divide and hate. So have fun with that.

I don't see what's divisive about it. I'm not talking about evangelizing for or against anything, I'm talking about personal choices about what you want to contribute to. I don't see why people should feel obligated to support things that they think are wrong or dangerous.

Are you supporting the software or running a purity test for others involved.

It seems backwards to leave a blogging platform project because other people helping make that blogging platform have different views. They might even use it to make a blog about something you wouldn't. They might say something dangerous like the right sucks or the left sucks.

The internet was better without real names. The less people know about you the less prejudices you face.

I am not saying that if someone has poor leadership skills they should stand all I am saying is it should not be because of their beliefs. I mean why are they referencing his blog posts and not github issues of poorly handled pull requests.

I mean why does the leader have to align with your faith. If this escaletes youll realize that people will discriminate patches of contribution because they came from some who is "muslim" or "christian".

Yeah there's nothing wrong with not supporting people you don't like. Fork and move on.

However what the GitHub repo is an example of is straight up bullying. They're trying to force the Rails org to fall in line...

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