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[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bruh everything is funded by some sort of criminal. Jeffery Epstein could have donated to the Mozilla foundation for all we know. You literally cannot tell.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's a very convenient position that absolves you from any responsibility to do anything. Convenient, but I don't think correct.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As u/TBi said in the comments

People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure that's right. It's not like they're giving money to brave. The library itself isn't tainted, and using it doesn't benefit brave or the CEO.

Further, simply supporting a thing doesn't make that thing a moral proxy for the supporter. That path leads to an infinite regress of bad moral choices with nothing being moral.

[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Lemmy is licensed under the AGPL which was created at the Free Software Foundation which was started by Richard Stallman who made controversial comments about Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. Don't breath or you might inhale an atom once exhaled by Adolf Hitler.