In case you haven’t heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about “[creating] a big tent" for open source”.

If you’ve got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should’ve been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav’s actions - recommend checking them out.

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Triple posting just to whine about the distinction between a mere douchebag and a fascist sounds like textbook sealioning, but on the off chance you’re genuinely interested in learning, David Heinemeier Hansson has orchestrated hostile takeovers of RubyGems and NixOS projects with the very apparent intent of excluding marginalized minorities and people who support not marginalizing minorities out of those projects. He has done this with the collaboration of key people from the defense contractor Anduril, including its founder. This demonstrated combination of bigotry, reactionarism and antidemocratic strongman tactics is more than sufficient to consider him a fascist.

    • enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      Pardon my many messages, but you’re perpetuating the reason I’m doing it. Mentioning a “mere doichebag” and a fascist in the same breath detracts from how serious the latter is.

      As a Nixos user myself I had no idea DHH is involved. I am aware of the Anduril debacle, is it literally just “defense association and bigotry = fascism”?

      EDIT: I just want to say I found the post that substantiates DHH’s bigotry, and I understand the accusations of being a white supremacist https://world.hey.com/dhh/legacy-without-nostalgia-b19708c9

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        “As a Nixos user myself”: god it makes so much sense that you went from being a NixOS user who loves anduril to spamming up this thread defending DHH. posting his blog here semi-critically won’t save your posts by the way

          • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            I think you’re being annoying and obtuse. I think your reading of the reply I took the effort of giving you shows bad faith or poor reading comprehension. Your saving grace and the reason I’m not hurling invective at you is that after replying to multiple separate comments and asking for proof that DHH should be considered a fascist by some unspecified standard you seem to hold, you finally did go and search for the available information on your own.

            It’s your choice whether the behavior of the people involved counts as fascism in your eyes but I don’t care for the attitude of coming into a thread and pestering multiple people to give you context you can find on your own. Trust me, we understood the first reply. No need for seven.