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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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 (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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[–] RiceBowl@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Man fuck that. I dont expect a tech company to be great. But I have a 13” and was excited to see these keep getting better. But that response is just bullshit. There are legitimate business reasons aside from all of the many moral ones not to support bullshit reprehensible creators and by doing so publicly connect your company to them. If they can’t even see the dollar signs there… well… fuck em.

Maybe I’ll start quoting the Hyprland fucks in the framework forums and see if that language flies or gets taken down.

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you can be proud of your 13"

[–] RiceBowl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 hours ago

To me they’re now just another tech company whereas before they had a little bit more credibility and respect.