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title: "Thank You Drew DeVault"
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date: 2024-03-23T14:50:33+02:00
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slug: thank-you-drew-devault
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This is a long-overdue public thank-you letter to [Drew
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DeVault](https://drewdevault.com/).
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He has been an ethical FOSS steward for as long as I remember. There is a
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number of examples where he stands for what's right and upholds his values.
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Sometimes, perhaps unfortunately, pretty damn often, [getting shit for it][1].
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Negativity on the internet doesn't seem to stop him: it obviously makes him
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feel worse, but he persists and keeps doing what is right.
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The most recent example, which pushed me over the line to write this post, is
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[Redict announcement][2]. Quote:
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> The source code is hosted on Codeberg, a Forgejo instance operated by a
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> German non-profit, which should provide a comfortable and familiar user
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> experience for anyone comfortable with the GitHub-based community of Redis®
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> OSS.
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This paragraph amazed me. Drew created and runs [SourceHut][3], a Codeberg
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competitor. As much as it was tempting to use it he used a competitor's forge
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to host the redict, while being the primary driver (and the prime decision
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maker) for the fork.
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Keep going, Drew, and thank you.
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[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/30/bleh.html
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[2]: https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/
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[3]: https://sr.ht/
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