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It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings, it's only weird if you insist that project teams should be entirely amoral.

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The main reason open source projects exist at all is because of people who started them with quite often fringe ideological leanings. Just look at the GNU project.

And fringe economical leanings, too. Just look at the GNU project: the firmware in printers is still of subpar quality, and GNU didn't really help to change that... and why on Earth would it, anyway?

> It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings

As long as they align with the correct (i.e. yours) values, of course. When they adopt the wrong values, it's not fine.

But it is fine. If I disagree with a project's values I'm not going to contribute to it, and they wouldn't want me there either.

There's still a line between values I disagree with and values that directly attack me as a person. The former is how many of us feel about some of our dependencies and most proprietary software we use, so it's clearly fine to some degree.

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