A contributor to the Hyprland project (a dynamic window tiling manager), Vaxry, who he and others on his Discord is critical and joking of pronouns (who/cares), does not care about the political background of contributors or users of Hyprland and is concerned about the creep of ideology into the free and open source ecosystem.
Background:
From his critic: https://archive.ph/Sfvlr And Vaxry's rebuttal: https://archive.ph/jMoKB
He called out the bad apples who wish to impose their purity testing onto projects and users:
Subsequently his concerns were dismissed as transphobia and national socialism by his opponents which led to a member of RedHat, FreeDesktop and Xorg to tell him via a RedHat email address that he is in violation of the Code of Conduct for behaviour outside of the project and if he continues he will be banned.
And subsequently calling this out publicly got him banned.
And the other side justifying this move for balance:
As a consequence, he can no longer contribute code to FreeDesktop including Xorg and Wayland, critical components for a tiling window manager. And there is now a push to banish the "deeply toxic" Hyprland project from distributions and deal with "problematic" users to purge them from free and open source software, including their forks.
It looks as if the purity testing in free and open source software is spreading. And there are increasing numbers of individuals drunk with power who wish to impose their values, beliefs and codes onto everyone else. The Linux Kernel already replaced its Code of Conflict with the Code of Conduct. Not just with FreeDesktop, I've seen the same principles being made within the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, RedHat and other important project contributors and users. Now we're seeing purity testing and gatekeeping in the same regard as we've seen elsewhere in proprietary software, gaming and other media.
Wokeness has been in open source for over a decade now. Any project with a Code of Conduct is woke. The very idea of open source projects having codes of conduct originated from a troon on GitHub and was propelled by cancel culture.
The technical signature of wokeness has been evident in open source for even longer. Wokeness hates anything old (because that means it was made by White men), which is why they love to replace perfectly good software with new, usually inferior, and always radical, alternatives. The most visible examples of this are Wayland replacing X, and Systemd replacing init, but it's absolutely pervasive, so you also see it manifest in minor ways, such as the "ip" program replacing numerous network tools like "ifconfig" and "route", pkexec (which had an exploit last year) replacing su, the army of RIIR fags who have even infiltrated the Linux kernel, and the list goes on and on.
The SSH exploit is part of this technical signature too. An XZ backdoor was only a factor for SSH because of distros patching Systemd support into it.
Is there any way to strip this shit from Linux, or is there a distro that doesn't buy into this bullshit?
I'm not sure about the politics, but there are systemd-free distros like Void and a couple forks like Devuan and Artix. They would still use the same kernel though, not sure if there is any way around that.