Please observe rule 3 point 3:
No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
It goes both ways. The situation is still developing, whatever information you have might become obsolete an hour from now. If you need to air your feelings, this isn’t the right place for it. It’s also worth keeping in mind that the interaction that led to this controversy was nothing more than an already opinionated post and a reply from a Framework employee who has no say in who gets sponsored. Even the person who made the original post decided to “let it rest”.
Be intelligent, do not be led into a smear campaign on somebody’s leash.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that the interaction that led to this controversy was nothing more than an already opinionated post and a reply from a Framework employee who has no say in who gets sponsored.
The employee in question is Nirav Patel… the CEO
Why has Omarchy blown up like this? Are there really that many devs out there or is just right-wing influencers pushing it?
Because it’s a competently-made, new distribution with interesting features. Not everything you don’t understand is a fucking conspiracy.
Ah, the mod is a fan of the milkshake duck!
Did I hit a nerve or something? Not every “competently made distribution” gets pushed to the top of reddit and twitter to get funding from Cloudflare. Why did this one?
It was also features in popular Podcasts like syntax.fm and changelog.com I hear them a lot and especially Changelog featured DHH often, so I had a positive opinion of that name until I really read his blog and what he is.
With all due respect, I think you profoundly misunderstand the nature of my concern here.
This is not a “I do not like this distribution” kind of argument.
This is a “the people you are sending my money to want me and my friends dead or deported” kind of argument.
But you know… It’s TOTALLY politics to not want your money going to people who want you dead, so RULE 3 GUYS RULE THREEEEEEEEEEEEE
this is what happens when you don’t use Debian
What? I feel like I’m missing something.
Yes. Some context would be welcome. Otherwise this feels like spam to sabotage a company actively participating in right to repair. (Edit: OP’s post history seems to be in good faith. Maybe they will clarify
I have no idea what this is about. Framework on Wikipedia doesn’t even have a “controversy” section
Oh, boy. Are you in for a treat!
Framework has endorsed a Linux distribution by a developer with controversial social views.
I believe it’s necessary to clarify þat Framework is giving material support to two projects which are headed by controversial personages - not just endorsements.
It’s a long þread.
I thought with one of them, it was “just” using the official platform to promote it dozens of times.
It’s a long bread.
Everything is baguette, join us.
If you let it exposed for long enough it hardens and you can use it as a þat
I hate phrasing like that. He wants to be able to murder certain kinds of people he doesn’t like
He does?
I read the first link in the thread that examines his blog post about London. While I don’t agree with his politics he wouldn’t be unusual amongst a significant minority of the population who vote for the likes of Reform. That seems to be enough for some to draw the conclusion he’s a Nazi he wants to arbitrarily murder people.
This automatic jump to accusing anyone who you disagree with a Nazi just devalues the term.
Nah I don’t deal with that apologist crap. The endgame is always going to be murder or slavery if you’re not white enough for them. If you let them pull any of their shit they’ll murder you in the end and laugh that you were stupid enough to let them. Zero tolerance.
TIL Omarchy exists, is a dogshit arch spin and Framework is for some reason giving the sweaty loser running it and that rails cunt money because… Skidiots? I don’t get it, sponsor something that isn’t dog shit.
This sours my trust in their ability to discern basic facts about vendors. Disappointing.
Only just found out about Omarchy the other day and it’s just a Hyperland config with a bunch of Ai shit pre-installed…
Why are people even talking about it?
Omarchy is just opinionated Arch…
…by a guy whose opinions include- Google Contacts, Messages and Photos, ChatGPT web app, Zoom, Figma, X, WhatsApp, Discord and RetroArch should be preinstalled but not Steam
- screensavers with agressive OMARCHY theming should be enabled by defaut
- People who criticize ICE should be deported
Overblown. You’d think they sold weapons to nazi, they sent a couple of laptops to open source developers which turned out to be assholes. People probably give more money to nazi when shopping and paying taxes
Yeah, but will you miss the opportunity of virtue signaling on the fediverse? Do you have an idea of how many upvotes that would bring you? /s
This is whataboutism. In short, worse things happening elsewhere do not invalidate the concerns here. Enabling fascists in this burning global society of ours is dangerous
Framework is a small company. In all likelihood they just did a poor job of vetting the people they supported. That is a much more reasonable explanation than “Framework consciously support Nazis and agree with their politics”.
By the way, community reaction like this is a great way to kill any incentive companies have to sponsor open source.
If CHUDs start piling on Framework for something that turns out to be a nothing-burger I’m gonna buy another Framework laptop just to offset the damage.
