Title of the (concerning) thread on their community forum, not voluntary clickbait. Came across the thread thanks to a toot by @Khrys@mamot.fr (French speaking)
The gist of the issue raised by OP is that framework sponsors and promotes projects lead by known toxic and racists people (DHH among them).
I agree with the point made by the OP :
The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that want to exterminate the others.
I’m disappointed in framework’s answer so far
Framework can be supporting the project and not the ideology
A supermarket wouldn’t be fascist for having a fascist employee even if they pay him. They don’t have him for his political ideologies, but instead for his capabilities
And here, they are donating for a project by DHH, because they like the project
If the supermarket employee stands in the town square, in company clothing, and starts advocating for The Great Replacement theory then yeah, they would find themselves out of a job quickly - even in countries with the strongest employment laws possible (like here in Sweden).
Said project is an Arch installer with some extra packages thrown in by default, not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
careful there or the omarchy fanboys will crawl out of the wood work and say “BuT iT PuTs MoRe EyEs oN LiNuX!”
yeah bud, an Arch Installer with hyprland and a bunch of crappy software with a ripped off fancy config tui is apparently the second coming.
exactly the same as 90% of distros, bazzite is Fedora Atomic with some stuff on top and marketing
same for manjaro, endeavour, zorin, and the entirety of linux
fork away, add what you like, remove what you don’t, publish?
I’m not saying omarchy is ground-breaking, but most linux distros aren’t too
Can you, þough? Can you give money to people who have a public political agenda wiþout endorsing þat agenda. Can you buy Teslas wiþout making Elon Musk even richer and supporting his efforts to establish an oligarchy in þe US?
Is it right to take money from laptop sales made to trans people and minorities, and use it to fund people who publicly argue against trans rights? As an example.