Comment by alberth

10 months ago

I wonder how much of this is fueled by the economic model of Asahi.

marcan had indicated donations are down, and it's hard to support ones livelihood just from donations alone - especially when they are down.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/c5a49bcb-45cf-4295-80...

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AdmiralAsshat  10 months ago

My perspective is it might be a chicken-or-egg problem. I would willingly donate to the Asahi project...if/when I were to buy a Macbook for the purpose of running Asahi Linux on it.

And I've been watching from the sidelines, waiting for Asahi Linux to become "stable" enough to consider buying a Macbook and putting Asahi Linux on it.

  • selectnull  10 months ago

    I was an early donator to marcan and never expected any delivery from Asahi project, just thought that the idea of having Linux of Apple Silicon was awesome and worthy of my support.

    But then marcan told his supportes to fuck off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas, which I was not willing to do.

    I guess this comment will be seen as abuse from the HN crowd. Oh well...

    • xyzsparetimexyz  10 months ago

      He seems to take a lot of things that are fairly neutral or merely untactful as being bad faith. Like the "thin blue line" comment by Dr Greg. Sure the whole thing blue line thing in reference to the police misrepresents their role in society (police in most western countries are fairly useless at best and actively harmful at worse), but Occam's razor just suggests that Dr Greg was just making a tactless remark rather than being super pro po-po.

    • sharpshadow  10 months ago

      It sounds weird and somehow I don’t think it was communicated that way, even if I wasn’t there. You say he said I don’t want your money unless you follow my ideology? Did he then send you the money back after checking your social media?

      Out of curiosity what are his political views? It has been mentioned a couple of times here already and it seems to be part of the story.

    • alberth  10 months ago

      > But then marcan told his supportes to f* off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas

      As someone not in the know, would you mind elaborating.

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    • LocutusOfBorges  10 months ago

      > But then marcan told his supportes to fuck off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas, which I was not willing to do.

      Is this about Marcan’s outspoken support for transgender people? If so, why not simply say that in your comment, rather than framing it in such vague terms?

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