1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

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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www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

morals should stay out of software,the ability to use the software to do anything is one of the benefits of open source licenses even if the creator doesn’t approve of using it to bombpesky former land occupiers.