Remove SponsorLink since it breaks MacOS restore

[kzu]

NOTE: there are also concerns that the SHA256 of the email that's used to check for sponsorships may be an issue with GDPR. So that part at least, isn't coming back, at all.

On the underlying issue of SponsorLink itself, and OSS sustainability, please join the conversation at https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1374

Fixes #1371

[PoteRii]

Hello, should we expect that SponsorLink is back after MacOS restore is fixed?

[jakoss]

Hello, should we expect that SponsorLink is back after MacOS restore is fixed?

It does not contain removal of the project, just the reference in the main csproj. So probably it will be back

[LucHeart]

"This is fine" - so you are only removing it since it breaks MacOS?... Really?

How can you ignore all the voices screaming about this being a horrible change. Not only horrible change, but literally killing moq all together for them. For example, I would need to throw Moq out of my Unittests at my company, since it violates a lot of security practices and GDPR.

for me personally also killing the trust in moq

[andkuh]

Omg, looks, like the reaction on the problem is going to be even more hilarious than the problem itself.

[vdovinanton]

Is MacOS restore only one reason?

[cmjdiff]

Tell the community you've learned nothing from this without telling them.

[Aaronontheweb]

Tell the community you've learned nothing from this without telling them.

what has the community done to support @kzu ?

[kzu]

There's an issue for folks to join the conversation on this moving forward: https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1374

[cmjdiff]

Tell the community you've learned nothing from this without telling them.

what has the community done to support @kzu ?

Told him, in many different ways, just how bad an idea this was.

[tomaszkusnierz]

I would never thought that, for once, apple will help .Net community so much.

[villecoder]

what has the community done to support @kzu ?

The community (at least those that were able) signed up as sponsors of the project.

Let's keep the discussion in proper perspective. It looks like the goal of adding Sponsorlink to Moq was to give something back to the sponsors and reap additional rewards to the Moq project. I might be wrong, but Sponsorlink looks like an effort to bring advertising to OSS via an affiliate program.

Personally, I don't want ads in my builds. I turned that flag off in npm when ads starting showing up during npm install. I understand the problem. But I can't get behind the solution.