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As far as I can see, Fackler does not represent Palantir in any capacity other than as an individual employee. Are you suggesting that a conscientious open source project should not permit employees of Palantir to be part of the project, or am I misunderstanding?
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if the Rust language core team wants to be apolitical, i'm fine with being quietly disgruntled about the Palantir employee on the libs teams. otherwise this is (and i hate to use this turn of phrase) literally virtue signalling (see also: Nat Friedman's hypocritical tweet)
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also, because i'm tired of hashing this out: if you claim that the position doesn't afford him or Palantir any decision-making power within the project, you're actually making an even stronger argument for why it's trivial to replace him
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and if you think that Palantir gains nothing from sponsorship and we should redirect its ill-gotten money to good causes, then consider why Palantir would obviously never agree to give the money if they were forbidden from disclosing the sponsorship in any way 🙃
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don't disagree, but i'm curious what you mean by palantir sponsorship -- just fackler's time?
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Replying to @whitequark @BatmanAoD and @rustlang
but it's not like historically core team members avoided palantir, there's this meetup.com/en-AU/Rust-Syd
i agree that the palantir connection is f’d up, but i’m not sure that citing this ‘sponsorship’ lends strength to the argument that the project should clarify its stance (meetup appears to have been unaffiliated w the project except by a core team member mc’ing, also a one off?)
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also, thank you for making that clearer, i’d obviously glossed over that as a form of sponsorship (which is silly, i view hosting meetups sponsorship by *my* employer)
iworth noting not all sponsorship is agreed to (although argument that “accepted by omission of rejection...”)
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