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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.

Antoine Beaupré, aka anarcat, demanded that Framework clarify its political position with regard to these two projects.

Hyprland, a Wayland compositor, is led by a "toxic and hateful community," Beaupré observed, and Omarchy, a Linux distribution, comes from David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), a controversial figure in the Ruby and Linux communities.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m amazed that they haven’t backtracked this yet. They’re just cool losing all those customers.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

idk, looking at twitter, there seems to be a pretty good number of fascist techbros who are congratulating framework on this

i guess framework doesn’t mind the change in audience…

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, its twitter. Its almost entirely fascist tech bros there.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Bots pretending to be tech bros*

Twitter is basically millions of Groks in a trenchcoat at this point.

I don’t believe any kind of analysis that depends on measuring sentiment on social media given that it’s trivially easy to run hundreds or thousands of accounts on a 5 year old graphics card and some vibe coding.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Theyre not gonna, look at all the comments itt that are ok with giving money to transphobes

[–] TwilightNobody@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It irks me to no end that both here and in the framework community forum people will try to downplay just how awful DHH and their ilk are.

They'll never say that they don't mind supporting someone who's transphobic, or a nationalist, or a racist. Instead they'll just say that you need to separate the art from the artist, or that you're just engaging in "purity tests" or whatever other bullshit reason they can throw to absolve themselves from supporting objectively shitty people.