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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects (www.theregister.com)
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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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[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Does anybody have a source of the direct sponsorship to Obarchy. All I found was a couple of Twitter posts.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 15 points 1 week ago

I detailed it out in comments elsewhere, but Omarchy was not directly financially supported. It did receive outsized promotion (not just a few twitter posts), but the real telling part is in events.

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

For a hardware company, thats kinda weird. Hackaday Supercon and Hack Club were the only ones to receive more than RailsWorld. Hackaday makes clear sense, and I would say Hack Club does as well. Rails World though? How?

And one more bit to note - nrp has acknowledged that FW provided DHH with equipment, but oddly, that was left off the list, despite listing others such as 1 unit to Nixcon, 3 units to LabsCon, and 2 to RISC-V International.

[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like they didn't sponsor Omarchy, but they did promote it on their twitter a couple of times: https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1960029405067313546

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago

Mostly right, it was also far more than anything else brought up by FW twitter, but there was financial support in hardware as well (mentioned by nrp, and oddly enough, not detailed in the blog post).

As well as one other item (quoting myself here):

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

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