cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32868516
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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:
The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists
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Which is why you should never think for profit companies are your friend, ethical, worth simping for or let them become part of your identity.
Is there more details?
i’ve linked to more context in the original post
but the TL;DR is:
- framework has started to financially support open-source project
- among those projects are hyprland and omarchy, both having ties to the far-right (hyprland’s community is a toxic nazi bar and omarchy is maintained by a loud and proud racist)
- people were understandably upset at framework for this
- framework’s response was “nooo you guys, we are apolitical! we are trying to make a big tent! and that includes fascists too, stop being meanies!”
I read the links provided in the other thread. This seems to be a bit of an overreaction.
Well, out of all projects they funded, they just so happen to mention the nazi one significantly more than the others on Twitter. They like mentioning it a lot.
And it’s not an important package or some foundational project.
Overreaction is the only tool that works to stop enshittification before it starts.
Lean on Framework. Insist they vet projects before giving them money. There’s nothing here that can’t be undone.
Let me sum up the reasons.
DHH wrote a blog post on his experience with immigration in the UK. Some people think that makes him a Nazi. He also runs the omarchy distribution.
There was a transphobic post on hyprland‘s Discord, which was unmoderated at the time.
That blog post is quite racist, or at the very least, xenophobic.
It’s not one comment from hyperland, it’s an harasement campain that led them to be baned from freedesktop.org and rightfully so.
And the blog post you liked is a rant that there not enough white people in london while supporting the tommy robinson march ( a nazi event ).
Funny how there’s already people downplaying how bad it actually is.
Sooo… I guess I was outta the loop pretty hard. I just spun up Omarchy on account of all the hype surrounding it, and had just enough time with it to fall in love with the workflow before stumbling on this post.
So does anyone have a recommendation for a good tiling window manager that isn’t created by racists, transphobes, mysogonists, or any other kind of bigots? Or is this just a… time to run back to base Arch with KDE sorta day?
Edit: And if you are going to inform me that Arch or KDE is run by or support bigots… can you wait until the weekend? Please?
sway, niri are both good, different kind of WMs.
