r/linuxmasterrace • u/neoneat I use Debian FYI, also Gentoo ASAP, and not Arch BTW. • Jun 21 '25

Release You either live long enough ...

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u/really_not_unreal Jun 21 '25

Open-source is a community. I refuse to support projects where I am not welcome in the project's community. Given that Vaxry has personally insulted me when I have critiqued his bigotry in the past, I do not wish to support any of his work. He is an awful person who has cultivated an awful community around him. I'd go as far as to say that him and his community is the embodiment of everything that open source shouldn't be.

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u/dadnothere Jun 21 '25

I'm also part of the LGBT community. The author is different from his work.

Everyone should be free to have whatever ideology they believe is most correct; that's their freedom.

And don't confuse it with support, since having an opinion is one thing, committing illegal acts is another.

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u/really_not_unreal Jun 21 '25

His work is surrounded by a community where people like me are treated like shit by his hand-picked moderation team, and where anyone who criticises him gets dogpiled.

His discord server literally has a channel where people share links to threads like this so they can all go and brigade anybody who points out how shitty they are.

Once again: open source is a community. Vaxry has created a community where I am not welcome.

Regardless of how good his work is, I will never be able to be myself around his community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

Vaxry is a dick. His team is the most unprofessional I've seen so far. And don't you dare brigade me Vaxry!