The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

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  • rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    17 days ago

    When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other “friends”

    • t3rminus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?

      Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…

      • rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Not suggesting he was automatically a good guy just because of that. But there’s a video podcast where he spoke to Jason Calacanis about how the older you get the more socialist you get, the dangers of Facebook, a responsibility for societies to create citizens and not just workers, the need for healthcare, education, and order social programs, etc.

        It was all very level headed and reasonable, and he honestly looked incredible. Now he looks nothing like it.

        The podcast is This Week in Startups and they have an archive. Highly recommend you check out this specific episode so you can see the stark contrast.