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Xlibre

Posted Jun 14, 2025 14:02 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Xlibre by linuxrocks123
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

That is a very bizarre position to take. From what I read:

If someone has views you consider unpalatable, and their employer doesn't censure them for said views, then you boycott the employer's software.
But if someone has views you consider unpalatable, but doesn't have an employer, then you happily use that person's software.

Xlibre

Posted Jun 15, 2025 4:51 UTC (Sun) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (3 responses)

> If someone has views you consider unpalatable, and their employer doesn't censure them for said views, then you boycott the employer's software.

If I'm reading it correctly, they're actually arguing the opposite: They want to boycott the employers who *do* censure people for specific views (Damore and Eich both got fired).

Which is at least internally consistent. Silly, and probably results in boycotting all US employers if you apply it completely literally (see e.g. [1] and [2]), but internally consistent.

[1]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/490/228/#tab-...
[2]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/590/17-1618/#...

Xlibre

Posted Jun 15, 2025 13:34 UTC (Sun) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

Oh, I see, I stand corrected.

It's still inconsistent, though. Companies are not governments and they are allowed to express an opinion too. Being fired by a company for something you've said is not a violation of the Constitution.

Xlibre

Posted Jun 15, 2025 14:40 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Being fired by a company for something you've said is not a violation of the Constitution.

XKCD #1357 comes to mind.

Xlibre

Posted Jun 15, 2025 14:45 UTC (Sun) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Of course, that comes with the thing that the people who actually do the firing are themselves expressing a particular belief. Effectively, you're punishing the people who chose to express their beliefs by refusing to work with someone for daring to have "bad" beliefs…