However, in light of these revelations, I am henceforth writing them off until they make considerable alterations to their 'big tent policy'.
I can not, and will not support any entity whose ideology does not align with my own.
The open source community is made up of countless diverse individuals and entities, many of which are LGBTQ+ or friends and family of LGBTQ+ individuals, and they need to acknowledge and respect them.
By taking this approach and action, they are casting a shadow on them all. Their response pretty much said "That's nice, we're just gonna keep doing what we're doing. we really don't care about your concerns or feelings because you're in the minority and we're all bout the big picture."
Usually I try not to get into anything political cos I just wanna hang out an be little, but, Linux and FOSS are one of my passions and I just had to reply.
Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. You saved me from a very egregious purchase.