Hmm... So, requiring a sandbox to run @usebottles is considered evil and proprietary software, but patching it to remove the donate button without updating support links is considered fine? Uh huh...

Edit: Please keep in mind that this was not a decision made by the entire openSUSE community. This is addressed to the people who authored and accepted the patch.

Update: The patch is no longer being applied.

main: Exit on non-sandboxed environments by TheEvilSkeleton ยท Pull Request #3583 ยท bottlesdevs/Bottles

Description For context: https://usebottles.com/posts/2022-06-07-an-open-letter/ and #2345 It's been 2 years, yet we've seen several cases of distributions fucking up Bottles one way or ano...

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Real talk, if you're patching software to make it "work" in your distro, I suppose that's fair, but removing the donate button is on a whole new low
@TheEvilSkeleton WTF.... I expected better from SUSE.
@me @TheEvilSkeleton just going to say that one individual does not represent the whole openSUSE community. key difference here is SUSE != openSUSE. :) I contribute as well as a packager and I don't actually like that donation links are removed just because.
@luana @uncomfyhalomacro @TheEvilSkeleton I always assumed (wrongly as it turns out ๐Ÿ˜…) that openSUSE was somewhat of a joint effort between the community and SUSE itself and changes would eventually trickle towards SUSE Linux Enterprise.

@uncomfyhalomacro @TheEvilSkeleton @me technically SUSE does grab stuff from openSUSE I think, but theyโ€™re legally separate institutions and have entirely separate boards and stuff

Unlike fedora, which is legally owned by red had and red hat has repeatedly refused purposes to make it a legally separate institution

@luana @uncomfyhalomacro @TheEvilSkeleton @me And now Red Hat is owned by IBM. And look how many unethical decisions they've made.

As for the removal of the donation button, seriously!? None of the developers are forcing donations! Just why do this!?