Comment by decentrality
4 days ago
Seems like it might be reacting to or fanned to flame by: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
4 days ago
Seems like it might be reacting to or fanned to flame by: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
No, this fork is at least 6 months old. The first PR is dated February 13th.
This is correct. The fork and the pitchforks are not causally related
That's not a rug pull, that's a few overly sensitive young 'uns complaining
overly sensitive to what?
"You're doing business with someone whose views I dislike" is not harassment, nor do I believe that the person who opened the issue is arguing in good faith. The world is full of people with whom I disagree (often strongly) on matters of core values, and I work with them civilly because that is what a mature person does. Unless the VC firm starts pushing Zed to insert anti-Muslim propaganda into their product, or harassing the community, there is no reasonable grounds to complain about the CoC.
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Boycotting a text editor because the company that makes it accepted funding from another company that has a partner who holds controversial views on a conflict in Gaza where children are killed is going a bit far I think.
In a perfect world, children don't get killed, but with that many levels of indirection, I don't think there is anything in this world that is not linked to some kind of genocide or other terrible things.
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> Are they really boycotting jews now?
Just because they're boycotting someone who happens to be Jewish doesn't necessarily mean they're boycotting them because of it.
> Zed just announced that they are taking money from Sequoia Capital, which has a partner, Shaun Maguire, who has recently been publicly and unapologetically Islamophobic. It seems hard to believe that the team didn't know about this, as it was covered in the New York Times. In addition, Maguire has been actively pro-occupation and genocide in Palestine for nearly 2 years.
> How can anyone feel like the Code of Conduct means anything at all, when Sequoia is an investor? I'm shocked and surprised at the Zed team for this - I expected much better.
Reads like it has more to do with what they said and done in the past which seems reasonable.
Sounds like the timer is on. Right when Zed started to be really good.
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