nope we did not forget. also remember framewoek deciding not to mod the forum post discussing the issue. giving free reign to racists and transphobes inside the post answered all of questions the company wouldnt address out loud.
at least they went mask off before i spent money upgrading my framework 13 # ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'Sumbitch. I KNEW I hated Omarchy, I just couldn’t put my finger on it. I hope Framework pulls their heads out of their asses soon.
I actually have not heard a thing about Omarchy since this, despite 2-3 months where people were ravenously obsessed with it, then DHH wrote that viral blog post about how London has too many
brown people“non native brits”.It is nice seeing other distros, like the One True Distro: NixOS, getting funded. I didn’t see Omarchy on their branding/supported distros with the new laptop either (they list Fedora, Ubuntu, NixOS, Mint, and Bazzite).
https://frame.work/ca/en/linux
They do still list Omarchy on their hardware seeded distros. (Why they needed to seed hardware to a billionaire who already owns their hardware and forced his whole company to use it I do not know. Also, Omarchy isn’t so much a distro as a pile of shell scripts and justfiles).
https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/framework-sponsorships
Omarchy doesn’t appear on their list of sponsorships.
Edit: Rails World is on their sponsorships and is run by DHH also. That’s arguably less a linux thing.
Yeah. I really like their hardware but haven’t bought any yet and this has had a big impact on why I’ve hesitated.
I honestly think a no strings grant is different from funding to do a stated task.
But I’m not exactly up to speed on if this was a no strings grant from fascists. However that’s what it sounded like, as a way to try to legitimize the fascist funding group.
I would prefer no fascist money go into my products, but I guess that’s my line.
Unless I’m misremembering, please correct me if framework was funding fascists
So Framework has been sponsoring various Linux projects for at least a year.
In the summer last year they announced they were sponsoring Omarchy, an Arch Linux distribution tightly run by DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails, owns Basecamp, and a billionaire).
DHH has been known to be politically incorrect with some concerning views. Last summer he wrote a blog post about how London wasn’t the city he remembered because it was full of non-native brits and has been supporting anti-immigrant/alt right politicians.
I do not know more than that, or whether he supports nazis explicitly, but it’s a bad look that has rightfully upset a lot of people.
Edit: They sponsor Rails Conf, which is the rails conference DHH created after he got banned from the original one.
Thank you, guess I got confused.
I agree this sucks.
Oof. Didn’t realize the RoR connection with Omarchy until now.
Edit: They sponsor Rails Conf, which is the rails conference DHH created after he got banned from the original one.
HEAVILY outsizing every other event sponsorship.
But rails isn’t even a linux thing???
Aaaand there’s the problem with FW.
Edit: Iirc, it was more than all Linux event sponsorships combined.
