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by yoyohello13 1434 days ago
> There's Sourcehut. But I have friends with beef with the guy who made it and I don't want to support him.

What's their beef if you don't mind me asking? Drew seems like a nice enough guy. He is very opinionated obviously, but he's created many amazing FOSS projects.
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halostatue 1434 days ago
I don’t know the OP’s friends’ beef with Drew, and I don’t have a direct beef with Drew, but I cancelled my paid Sourcehut account after getting a clear message that Drew wasn’t interested in supporting anyone who wants to use the software he writes on non-FOSS systems.

It’s a stricter stance than the FSF, and I won’t support the FSF financially (as I fundamentally do not agree with their mission, their licence, or their leadership). So…Sourcehut gets a year of paid support from me, but that’s it. It fundamentally doesn’t interest me, because I’m not interested in using Linux or FreeBSD as a daily driver.

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bayindirh 1434 days ago
He might have opinions about his software, but he also made it clear that Source Hut is free from his views, and he sees sr.ht as a serious business.

So, I don't see Drew's views as a reason to not to support Source Hut, because in my perspective while he might not be agreeing with one's view, he's actively protecting these views to allow them to be expressed, and this is great in my view. The relevant comment about this, made by himself is here [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31966313

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