Post #944627

My feed is full of BSD people gloating about the systemd "age verification" stuff and I can basically see them doing the Pixar face behind the screen and saying "heh, told you" Feels like a good time to remind everyone that just like Linux, FreeBSD (one of the biggest BSD OSes) is also financed in part by donations from "big tech" corporate sponsors – Meta, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2025 Meta in particular is one of the biggest lobbyists that push for the "OS-level age verification" bullshit. That is not to say that you shouldn't take any money from big tech whatsoever as a project of that scale, but becoming a "Foundation Partner" clearly buys you some influence over the project: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-partnership-program/ My point here is not "you're only allowed to criticize age verification if your OS of choice has zero corporate influence". My point is that instead of dunking on people who use systemd and reveling in the fact that you've "always known better", we should fight against it together. "First they came for systemd users, and I stayed silent, because I wasn't a systemd user", and all that.