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minus-squareDanitos@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoWorth mentioning that California’s and Brazil’s age verification laws were cited as a motivating factor in the pull request, the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days ago the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects. So he made several mistakes as part of a co-ordinated jumping the gun on boot throating, AND he’s getting paid to make open source software worse?
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minus-squareDanitos@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days ago The author does not work for Microsoft My bad, it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the author. nor he did add this field to “other open source projects” Yes, he did PRs using/collecting that field: archlinux/archinstall canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision another one in the same repo. yet another one in the same Canonical repo accountsservice People just love to hate anything systemd related Agree, and I actually like systemd, but I don’t see the relantionship between that and my comment.
Worth mentioning that California’s and Brazil’s age verification laws were cited as a motivating factor in the pull request, the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects.
So he made several mistakes as part of a co-ordinated jumping the gun on boot throating, AND he’s getting paid to make open source software worse?
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My bad, it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the author.
Yes, he did PRs using/collecting that field:
Agree, and I actually like systemd, but I don’t see the relantionship between that and my comment.