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Re:Red Hat Suspends Funding to the Free Software Foundation by gameswithgo on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:53PM (#26597424)
Speaking of good faith opinions, are you arguing in good faith that the witch hunt is just because his opinion is not the same? Can we refuse to do business with people when their opinions are legitimately abhorrent? Can we distinguish between differences of opinion and abhorrent opinions?
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Re:Red Hat Suspends Funding to the Free Software Foundation by hui-zheng on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:01PM (#26597501)
Assuming this email is the root cause of everything. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191... Could you explain what part of this email is legitimately abhorrent about?
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Re:Red Hat Suspends Funding to the Free Software Foundation by kelnos on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:06PM (#26597554)
> Can we refuse to do business with people when their opinions are legitimately abhorrent?

Absolutely. Unless the refusal is about several legally-protected categories.

> Can we distinguish between differences of opinion and abhorrent opinions?

Some people can, some people can't.

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Re:Red Hat Suspends Funding to the Free Software Foundation by foobar33333 on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:56PM (#26597452)
Anyone can refuse to do business at any time. I'm suggesting that this move from redhat is a disappointment but not that it should be illegal.
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