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Nikola is one of Crystal lang largest sponsors[0]. I wonder if this is going to have repercussions. It's no fault of the Crystal community but might cast a shadow nevertheless.

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/sponsors/

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I see Mozilla always complaining about privacy matters and violations of its largest partner, critiquing the very hand that feeds them and they still take in the money that keeps them alive and accounts for 80% of their entire revenues YoY.

That partner is Google, the anti-privacy company that stands against what Mozilla is fighting for and supporting (and also funds many other open-source projects). Nothing has happened or changed and zero repercussions for Google's actions. The same for Crystal.

I do not think you will find any clean hands in the tech industry and everyone knows it.

80% of their revenues, but probably 200-300% percent of their profits. Google just hands them an enormous amount of money, regularly, for nothing but a token in return, and everything else they do fails.

Using fraud to support interesting open source work – I'm kinda conflicted.

So long as Crystal was never influenced by Nikola, I see no conflict from Crystal's perspective. Money is money. It's only tainted by the morality of its origins if you let it.

Oddly common. Many of the crypto ponzies that lead nowhere contributed a lot to some good open source projects. Well their employees did at least

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