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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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[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Politics in my [insert literally fuckin anything]? It's more likely than you think!

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

being kind is actually not political. By definition if someone hates people for anything other than what they do or say.. then its the person who creates the political cloud.

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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.

[-] 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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