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Fellow #php devs: I regret to inform you that The PHP Foundation is not your friend, and they do not follow the ethics that they claim to believe in.
For starters, they recently published that Automattic, the commercial company associated with WordPress and who is being sued by WP Engine over extortion and racketeering claims, upped their donation. Rather than returning it they celebrated it.
Also on their site is a statement of thanks to Sticker Mike for their contribution of “free swag”. Because apparently free swag is fine from companies that support fascists.
The behaviors of Automattic and Sticker Mule are incompatible, even at a glancing level, with the espoused conduct required of a member or participant in the foundation.
I refuse to donate money to people who support breakage of open source or the eradication of people groups. I ask you to refuse to support it, too. #php
I’ll be canceling my Jetbrains subscriptions as well and moving to something else. #php
I’ll add, this is not about expecting anyone to adhere to my ideas of ideological purity.
Rather, this is about egregious conduct. In Automattic’s case their owner’s use of direct, sexist and sexualized language in messages from official accounts.
In the case of Sticker Mule its direct and outright support for a candidate who demonizes people and calls them sub-human. And they did so via direct email into customer inboxes.
Review their code of conduct. Am I wrong? https://thephp.foundation/code-of-conduct/
@sarah I don't know what the code of conduct is for, rather than having it instead of applying it.