[zo1]

This seems similar to the Notepad++ team using their platform to promote political viewpoints.

The same thing happened with Facebook "pages", when they became a personal "soap box" by the owner of the page. It was downhill from there... You might as well turn the whole web into FB/Twitter/X/Insta promotional spam at that point.

[kryptiskt]

It's not at all similar, and that doesn't have anything to do with the quality or lack thereof of the viewpoints.

The Notepad++ site is run by the authors and reflects their stance. Putty.org is run by an outside party who hijacks the reputation of the PuTTY project to push their agenda.

[rokkamokka]

It's one thing to say "stand with Ukraine", and an entirely different thing to spread vaccine misinformation...

[account42]

Sure, one is virtue signalling while the other has the potential of actually helping someone stay safe.