In case you haven’t heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about “[creating] a big tent" for open source”.

If you’ve got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should’ve been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT: Found a solid summary of the situation in the wild - recommend checking it out.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    88·
    3 days ago

    The absolute shitshow that’s been some of the most visible open source projects recently just reinforces my thoughts that one cannot establish trust (and therefore support) with any project leads unless they show their political affiliations upfront. The same way we demand to see a Foss license, we should expect to see what kind of person someone is before we use our community support to elevate them in any position of technical authority.

    • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      Yes this completely sucks. I assume most open source projects are run by leftists of some kind and hate finding out I’m wrong.

      I have a framework 13 that I planned to use for years to come.

      Really wish they would have at least corrected this shit when it was pointed out to them.

      Guess I’m just going to run this thing until it breaks but they won’t be getting any more of my money.

    • rook@awful.systemsEnglish
      40·
      3 days ago

      Shoutout to gleam.run whose web page has always (AFAIK) said

      Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.