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by ericwooley 1880 days ago
While software isn't really the right place for that per se, I can definitely see the temptation. After all, you are providing something absolutely free, and you aren't including ads, tracking people, pestering about payment etc.. all this work has earned you a huge audience, and you want to use it to honor the memory of lives lost. Honoring the dead is pretty universally accepted as good thing.

It's a really big jump to say people who honor the dead with their software are going to insert malware in it next.

Use or don't use whatever you like, it's free and open source, but this seems like a pretty terrible reason to avoid otherwise great software.