@laund@wetdry.worldIf a project
needs #BigTech money, it is controlled by Big Tech.
The control might be tighter or smoother, but it's there: the project cannot deviate from its sponsors will, whatever the developer community think about it.
To me, it doesn't matter how the money come, as deducible donation, as contracts to be the default search engine, as
#Google summer of code, or as contributor employment:
if you take their money, you serve them.
if you think ‘working with other people whose goals don’t 100% align with yours’ is a bad thing, please avoid LLVM.
Well, to be fair, I try not only to avoid
#LLVM but any
#programming language based on it.
Sure: you can ignore all the damage these corporations are doing to people all over the world, as resource extraction, as pollution, as energy consumption, as surveillance and people manipulation through
#AdTech, as
workers' oppression and work with them for years despite "working with other people whose goals don’t 100% align with yours" is not such a bad thing.
But I can not.
I guess it's matter of priority, isn't it?
To me an overcomplicated toolchain is a liability in itself, but if it's built with
#GAFAM money, it's a cancer.
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