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Lunduke is not a credible source. He's inconsistent and has misled people countless times. I'll still check it out and respond, but will also link other resources.

Edit: You know, I wanted to respond to the linked post by Lunduke point by point, but sincerely... I'm so tired of seeing his kind of content. It's always the same mistakes, and he never learns.

And I'm not sure if he's even worth bringing into this discussion. I made my point, and I provided my source. If anyone wanted to talk, ask further, even dispute, I'm willing to explain myself and provide further resources.

But I never called Andreas transphobic, or misogynistic, or a slave owner. Lunduke found the absolute worst materials to represent something he dislikes. Why is that relevant here? Should I answer for these people, who I've never met? Do they represent me?

Also, in his cherry-picking, Lunduke erases important context simply because it doesn't support his views. Lea's and Andreas' conversation on Twitter painted a more complete picture of the issue with Andreas' actions, but of course Lunduke only shows the tweet of Andreas being seemingly reasonable.

Worse, it's like he genuinely has no idea what he's talking about sometimes. He just needs to build a narrative and push it onto others, hopefully finding people who'll take his views on reality as gospel.

Attacks Across Open Source

So many projects:

SUSE & openSUSE. Hyprland. Asahi Linux. Elementary OS. NixOS.

Lunduke, what? Genuinely, what are you on?

• Nix has long had an amount of drama, just search "are flakes ready." Or are you talking about the complaints when people didn't feel comfortable being sponsored by military companies? Very reasonable human behavior? Is that what's wrong with Nix? And despite it all, it's still one of the best ways to manage dependencies I've ever seen!
• Hyprland? What's wrong with Hyprland? Yeah, the project has a toxic community, vaxry (lead dev) failed to understand why this was bad and failed to fix it, then eventually got kicked off Freedesktop because others didn't want to deal with his shit. Now they get to build their own little kingdom, and it's apparently "working out" for those who remained.
• Asahi is the way to have a good Linux experience on newer M-series Apple hardware, which recently got a Fedora spin and gets better every update... what could possibly be wrong with it? Is it the fact that one of the most prolific developers supports LGBT rights? No, that can't be it, there's no way Lunduke—

In fact, if recent history is any indication, we're likely to see additional attacks involving Open Source Software projects and companies -- by the Trans Political Activists -- in the near future.

...Trans rights are ruining open source? That's your grand theory?

Might be, as it seems he doesn't take trans folks very seriously:

Back in 2022 -- yes, two years ago -- on the Discord chat server for the Hyprland window manager project, a man who identified as "Trans" listed his preferred prouns as "she/her". lunduke

I'm so sorry, but Lunduke's brand of journalism tires and saddens me. It's a slap in the face to anyone who cares about not only understanding the full picture of events, but being just in how you deliver the truth to others. And then, on top of that, he acts like a jerk.

Here's a video by Niccolò, KDE developer, showing how Lunduke is inconsistent, heavily biased and spectacularly fails at his own (and only) job.

That’s ridiculous.

Forcing all pronouns to male is injecting politics into it, and to turn around and say “dont inject politics into it” is ridiculous. The dev is a fucking idiot, as is whoever wrote that garbage.

Andreas doesn't need a bunch of people harassing him for a multitude of reasons that may or may not be true. What I believe he needs, is to reevaluate his actions and grow out of what seems to be a toxic mentality, conscious or not.

I'm not the very knowledgeable on this, but I think most people don't grow from being attacked.

Realistically, it can't stop the stubborn. But if it helps anyone reconsider, I'll take it.

The language doesn't really matter, the important thing is that it's a new codebase with a focus on memory safety and performance, and Rust helps servo achieve that goal. Gecko is an older codebase, so its focus would be more on compatibility.

Both are open source, servo is mostly exciting because it's a ground-up reimplementation, so it's not shackled by older decisions.

I don’t think he’s suggesting it isn’t open source, just we need more open source engines.

Gecko is open source. They were saying it would be good to have a new FOSS browser engine that isn't Chromium or Gecko to add some competition to the mix

Ah you got my comment wrong! I didn't mean to suggest Gecko is closed source. I just wanted another web engine that is also open source.