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if scientologists made open source software would you use it?
That, my friend, is actually an awesome question. I have the same question about Harry Potter and the biggot know as Rowling, or Hugh Jackman and his Trump and Murdock friends, Michael Jackson and pedophilia, Eric Clapton and his racism, etc, etc.
Can we / should we, separate the art from the creator?
I think we must. Not a single person alive is “purely good or purely evil” in all things (?)…
We do not turn a blind eye, we can acknowledge that Hitler was a human being and also evil. Same with Netanyahu and Trump. I will acknowledge they probably did some good in this world (perhaps only privately for their own people), but that does not mean we look away from their evil and vilify them for it.
It depends on what the software does, and how well reviewed it was. A lot of cases I’d say yes, but if it was (as an example) a personal therapist app I’d be pretty suspicious of it.