2026-09-05 18:45 UTC
@MaddieM4@raphus.social As someone who’s followed and supported all of these organizations for ~25 years, it’s difficult to view them as “vanity projects for rich people.” I won’t defend them, but I can’t see them as evil just yet. I suspect others who are defending them find themselves in a similar situation.
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-09-05 18:58
@ramsey@phpc.social I've financially supported more than a few of them myself over the years*, and it's possible I'm being too harsh because I feel swindled. Continuing to support them feels like it would be sunk cost fallacy, for me. *I do still have my shirt from LibrePlanet 2014, where I met RMS and got to experience him being weird in person. Not his legendary heights of weird, just oddly mournful that the PC police had made "dickless computing" an unfashionable pun to skewer diskless computing. Sigh.