So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people .. too?
Text book straw man, well done.
As I said, a person’s work is tainted by their beliefs, or in this case actions. Reiser’s work is obviously “tainted” as you’ve mentioned it here in this context.
Whether or not a person should continue to use the file system he developed is of course something each individual needs to weigh and decide for themselves. I note however that Reiser is not publishing essays on the art of murdering ones wife, and did not develop his filesystem with the intent of using it to host a community of murderers.
As I also said, using the software is tacit support. It’s not possible to steal the design and reject the doctrine. If you use firefox or libreoffice you support mozilla and or the document foundation. If you drive a tesla that you bought second hand you support Elon Musk
tyler@programming.dev 13 hours ago
By that logic if you use any firefox derivative like Waterfox you also support Mozilla. So by using any browser in existence you support either Apple, Mozilla, or Google…
If you buy a Tesla second hand yes, you are supporting musk, because you increase the demand for his products. That is not the same for free products in open source software. It’s especially not free for downstream consumers. Increasing usage of Waterfox will actually decrease usage of Firefox and cause Mozilla to struggle. There’s no payment or replacement of a fixed good that needs to occur. Your logic is very off here.