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

submitted 3 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: Found a solid summary of the situation in the wild - recommend checking it out.

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[–] cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.dev 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@mii @cornflake

"We did not realize the ethics of the individuals that were behind these organizations; we're sorry we should have investigated organizations better prior to donating to them. We will better research organizations in the future and we have stopped funding for these two groups".

That. Is that so fucking difficult for them to say?

I've been checking the thread over the last couple days expecting something like that from them, but nope. Nothing yet.

[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I don't think it's an "oopsie". Their main channels are still on Twitter, and the CEO is now farming compassion from the Twitter fash.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At this point, I'm gonna stop extending benefit of the doubt - Framework's choice to actively advance fascist interests, and double down when called out, is proof enough for me that they're fascists themselves.