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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects (www.theregister.com)
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Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.

Antoine Beaupré, aka anarcat, demanded that Framework clarify its political position with regard to these two projects.

Hyprland, a Wayland compositor, is led by a "toxic and hateful community," Beaupré observed, and Omarchy, a Linux distribution, comes from David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), a controversial figure in the Ruby and Linux communities.

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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)

being antifascist could only ever be "polarizing" if the person getting offended is an anti-antifascist aka a Nazi

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    I think it depends very much on what you think is fascism.

    Lemmy users sometimes think using harch language is "fascism" because they are young and dont know what real fascism was like.

    That being said, I havent read about what the Hyprland devs have been saying or doing, so sure, maybe they are bad people. I will go read about it now.

    Edit: I looked into it and its not fascism, as usual. It seems to be the usual stuff that is being called fascism when its not. Its all about how they moderate their forum and how they talk to people there. This is not fascism. Treating people rudely is not fascism. Making bad jokes is not fascism either.

    They may be dousches but we wont have another Stalin on our hands from this direction, dont worry. :)

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    FW is giving an openly racist and fascist person money for a project

    That's what people care about. Not the moderation behavior of the project

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Yeah but like I wrote, the definition of racist and fascist here is probably very stretched into silly levels. As usual on Lemmy and I guess other social media.

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