RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116826628276459549
Thats the reaction of GrapheneOS to Mullvad, a company that is supporting them, donating hundreds of thousands of € to alt right party:
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@tragivictoria No, that's our reply to a person claiming tankies don't exist in response to us opposing authoritarianism as a whole.
They've claimed it's impossible for the left to have any authoritarians or ethnonationalists. It doesn't appear you believe that, so what is the issue you have with us not believing it either?
It isn't simply a disagreement about whether tankies are far right. They're attacking us for acknowledging they exist, are a problem and opposing their ideology.
@GrapheneOS i need to admit I fucked up and quoted wrong toot.
@tragivictoria We made posts making it clear we oppose authoritarianism and ethnonationalism because we were being broadly attacked across the fediverse for them sponsoring 2 of our update mirrors. There isn't similar backlash against other open source projects they sponsor with far more than they give to us. What it is about these 2 update mirrors which is so much worse than getting $250k/year or even more than that? Would it be better if we hadn't said anything about it like other projects?
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3@tragivictoria GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. Many other open source projects take donations from anyone in a similar way.
Server sponsorships for our update mirrors and other servers is a separate thing to reduce our costs so we can spend money paying developers instead of paying for servers. Many other Linux distributions have hundreds of sponsored mirrors and other servers.
What do you think we should do differently about how we take donations and server sponsorships?
@GrapheneOS So first of all, I do understand where you are coming from, as someone who is also deeply involved with (another) FLOSS project.
When the Framework news broke in, GNOME Foundation, after consulting with community members and reaching out to Framework itself, decided to stop accepting donations from them. And even several months after the whole ordeal, when Framework contacted us again, they were rejected again.
It's not black and white game, but in certain cases this choice is the best thing to do, even for projects that depend on donations.
@tragivictoria @GrapheneOS Gnome should stop about that hypocritical view of them about there's no space for bigotry on gnome.
One of your biggest contributors is Fedora and Red-Hat, everyone knows that they're owned by IBM which did and still do worse things than framework did and you and all people on the board doesn't have the guts or desire to ban them like you did with framework.
Not only that, every now and them Gnome gets a big donation from Oracle, MS, Google, Nvidia and other companies that supports war on Israel, AI adoption and more and I don't see them get blacklisted too.
You guys should take a look at your backyard before pointing your fingers at others
One of your biggest contributors is Fedora and Red-Hat, everyone knows that they're owned by IBM which did and still do worse things than framework did and you and all people on the board doesn't have the guts or desire to ban them like you did with framework.
Not only that, every now and them Gnome gets a big donation from Oracle, MS, Google, Nvidia and other companies that supports war on Israel, AI adoption and more and I don't see them get blacklisted too.
You guys should take a look at your backyard before pointing your fingers at others