This kind of trite partisan comment does not belong on HN imo.
I disagree. Technology is inherently political, and it’s valuable and important to get informed and reminded about the many horrible people that are directly or indirectly tied to any mentioned organizations and projects.
Sadly, HN has increasingly become an echo chamber for 90% of the same kinds of partisan politics.
That's a good one, got a laugh out of me!
I skimmed their Wikipedia page and I can't figure out how they relate to this post. What's the connection?
Removing someone from the Ruby project for a political belief is oh so Ruby. Opinionated language for highly opinionated people
Honestly who cares. Liking and using an open source project has nothing to do with supporting the creators political beliefs. Separate the art from the artist and enjoy things. This miserable attitude is holding us all back from being better.
You can separate the art from the artist in the sense that you can say "ok, this is a cool tech", but by using it, you are still supporting the nazi artist.
Many people care and should care. Of course if a piece of software (or any project/tool, really) gets a lot of usage, it’ll indirectly make its creators more powerful. I wouldn’t want to make a person more powerful if they support horrible causes (like in DHH’s case), especially if there are many alternative routes to choose from that are less questionable.
You should spend less time seething over stuff you disagree with, and more time enjoying beautiful things in life...