Ron via Talk said on Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:21:03 -0700
Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote on 2025-09-27 23:57:
*6. The politics I can do without.*
Two of the first comments received about Omarchy were not about the quality of the software, but the character of the project founder.
I guess that's me. My comments touched on both. Without experience with Omarchy, there wasn't much I could add on that front.
As for DHH, people should have such information on the founder when making decisions - what they do with it is their choice.
I thought all this was about Stallman, not David Heinemeier Hansson. I don't know how Stallman came into the picture. Just so we're all on the same page, the following is a link to the hey.com blog entry that's being discussed here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 As writings go, the preceding is nowhere near the worst I've seen. He didn't call for anybody's death. He didn't call for race war or genocide. He didn't even write in favor of taking away health coverage from 15 million people by 2034. If this had been on his own, personal blog, I wouldn't have thought too much about it. But it's on the blog of his Hey software, and when that stuff starts happening, to me it starts looking less and less like free software. To me, the situation isn't strong enough for any kind of absolutes, but it's certainly a factor. I've read about Omarchy and for me, it contains nothing so good as to undo the uneasy feeling I get reading the blog entry. Matter of fact, Omarchy gives me nothing I can't have with my specialized setup of Void Linux. Except systemd, LOL. Whomever brought Stallman into the discussion, please stop. Stallman has nothing to do with DHH or Omarchy, and I really don't care about his personal hygiene. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com