Does the person's political opinion even matter if the product is good quality ? 20 years ago, nobody used to care.

johnisgood 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remember the times, too, when the person behind the code did not matter. The code did.

I had to google the controversy, found one dedicated blog site page about it, read it thoroughly and think it is insane to call this dude controversial based on what I read on https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...

I'm tired of people who are doing such great work being labeled politically over things like pronoun preferences and somehow this is supposed to make us wish for the projects failure OR the founder's expulsion from his own project.

(oh dear I forgot to imagine the project lead could also be female - damn you English language!)

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		Knew what the "controversy" was without even clicking.
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		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371016
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Propelloni 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, it does. Otherwise we wouldn't care that really great shoes are stitched together by indentured children somewhere far away.

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lenkite 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I am deeply ashamed to know that the Ladybird browser was being coded by indentured children somewhere far away. Your thoughtful and considerate "Strawman Argument" has fully enlightened me.

	▲	Propelloni 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Look, you could have said "I don't know what you mean. Explain it to me." And I would have tried and we would have had a civilised discussion why we think what we think. But you, by resorting to sarcasm, inappropriate quotational use of a term, and distorting my sentences, demonstrate that you understood what I said and what I meant. This, in turn, tells me you think it is okay to deny people liberty, equality and justice, as long as the product is swell. In fact, I think you think that's OK even if there is no product. I could argue some more, but this is the internet. So I leave it be and remind myself of the well-known saying "all evil needs to triumph is that good men do nothing."

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Zardoz84 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you would like to use a software or website made by MechaHitler ?

Me no. And 20 or 30 years some people used to care about that stuff. The same thing could be said about if it's opensource or not.

PD: So yes, I don't have any account now on that site that was called "Twitter".

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backtoyesterday 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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