Another commenter in a different thread mentioned wsudo could be a better name and I was thinking the same.
It doesn't really bother me personally either way, but I understand peoples' concern. I didn't mind the wget and curl aliases. I find myself autopilot typing 'ls' in PS quite often and I'm glad they aliased it to 'dir'.
Thanks for your condescending explanation of corporate practices. I'm sure the typical HN reader is completely ignorant to those facts. Perhaps you could also explain Russian corporate practices and ethics to us all.
Only you are saying anything about malice. Everything is easily explained by greed (or the desire to simply gain if you prefer softer language).
Semantics aside, I think it's quite clear they are trying to mislead by giving the appearance of being an American company. What does their company address show on their website? Delaware.
The report mentioned that their LinkedIn profiles changed from showing Moscow to Tbilisi. I'm sure I could also change my location to Tbilisi on my LinkedIn profile. How is that a meaningful argument? I don't want any amount of my money going to the Russian economy if I can avoid it, even if it's merely pennies as you say.
Paranoia isn't the only factor in a purchasing decision. It seems quite clear to me it's a Russian company trying to hide that fact for obvious reasons. I appreciate pnw posting this and making me aware before I decided to send money (indirectly) to Russia.
You refer to the post, but did you read the PDF linked to it? There's a conclusion section that's easy to digest.
As far as a connection to Putin's regime, you should read up the thread and note that nobody here mentioned that. Regardless of their supposed affiliations or lack thereof, I'm not interested in sending money to the Russian economy by purchasing a product from a Russian company. It's that simple. I think others would want to know that same information so thanks to pnw for mentioning it.
I wasn't aware of a Russia connection until this post. On flipperzero.com near the top it says:
>Our team was originally formed in Neuron Hackspace by collaborating with industrial design and manufacturing experts Design Heroes.
A quick Google search for Neuron Hackspace and Design Heroes shows their location as Moscow. I'm inclined to believe the detailed report from that blog post and am glad I did not end up buying the device.