Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
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: Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance

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.

  • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    523·
    10 hours ago

    Most of the discourse was about Omarchy/DHH, not just Hyprland, though that was a part of it. It is not purity testing to block people who don’t work well with others or are hateful like DHH from a community. If you want to bring people who want us dead into a community then everyone else is going to leave

    The main problem is

    1. Np contributed to and glazes Omarchy
    2. People wonder why DHH was sponsored with hardware
    3. Generic response about “big tent” ideology to include everyone - including racists and transphobes like DHH
    4. People are upset because they don’t want to be in a Nazi Bar
    5. NP makes twitter post about how people want to ascribe values to him he doesn’t hold, that he’s pro immigrant and pro lgbt
    6. Np responds in forum thread that they reviewed hyprland and determined that theyd improved their moderation and were ok to sponsor (monetarily)
    7. Framework responds they’ll make a blog post clarifying their sponsorships
    8. Blog post coincidentally excludes omarchy
    9. People question it and basically just get a “we will get that updated” response
    10. I still dont see it there

    You cant claim to be pro immigrant and pro lgbt when you actively invite white supremacists and transphobes into the community and then try to avoid responsibility for that by not commenting or not retracting support or not clarifying how you’d avoid it going forward

    The project may not be political (it is) but the people who use and support the project definitely are. If you want to kick out the community by inviting Nazis, then all that will be left once those people leave will be nazis. And if you knowingly collaborate with Nazis, you are a nazi.

    • stewie410@programming.dev
      31·
      20 hours ago

      The main problem is […]

      I’ll admit, I only vaguely know of DHH by name and Rails, vaguely remember the Omarchy announcement, and that’s about it. I seem to recall Prime referencing DHH’s controversial opinions, but I can’t say I’ve gone any deeper than that.

      If the discourse really is primarily focused on DHH/Omarchy, then I guess I just misunderstood this post/title & the article…or just don’t have the full context regardless.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      101·
      1 day ago

      I still dont see it there

      Because the “update” to the blog post was:

      Note that this list does not include products sent for marketing use or R&D use

      As a way to not talk about DHH/Omarchy directly, or the promotion they were doing (which was many times more than anything else they were talking about).