Just make sure your favorite employer's IT department is aware of this before they make a purchase order.

As someone who doesn't support Trumpism, nationalism, or white supremacy, I also think that illegal immigration is an objectively real problem, that the world is a complicated place where our ideals and reality conflict, and that we (as a society) have lost the ability to engage in meaningful conversation without defaulting to labels and categories.

What's worse, by defaulting to those labels, we increasingly lose credibility because of the generalizations they require, and the alienation of people who don't accept those generalizations.

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Hyprland is a good compositor. Omarchy is literally resulting in the sale of hundreds of framework devices, and (love it or hate it) causing a number of people to finally switch to Linux - myself included.

I have yet to see evidence DHH is a far-right racist. He's loud and not subtle about his opinions -- I've never heard him say the despicable hateful things I've heard from actual far-right racists. I don't know as much about the Hyprland dev.

With respect to the Ruby fiasco, I tend to have the contrarian view that supply chain attacks did demand action and clean-up. Access was super loose.

But yeah - I'll probably be labeled a 'far right racist' for having opinions people disagree with.

edit: And I'm pretty sure a minutely modified distro doesn't need this amount of donations at this point. It is not having a positive effect on the ecosystem to have so many donations to the most downstream project. All I can feel about this is, at its best, its buying attention through DHH's pre-existing influence. This does not seem to be a great thing to buy at this point.

It also seems like some of the criticism here reflects a very local Canadian political outlook being applied globally. That rarely works because the world’s values and politics differ widely, and enforcing one region’s standards everywhere just drives division and more polarization.

For instance, even within Canada, provinces have very different approaches to religion and immigration, and not all of them align neatly with international norms. These are complex issues, not simple moral tests. Quebec has restrictions on religious symbols in the public sector targetting muslims, prayer in public targeting muslims, and limits on legal immigration(you guessed it, targetting muslims). So it’s hard to take moral absolutism seriously when local politics themselves are complicated.

DHH's public views do overlap with Reform UK’s platform, which (if you believe polls) has substantial voter support right now. Whether one agrees or not, that makes them part of mainstream democratic debate, not fringe extremism. With the recent exodus of MPs from Conservatives to Reform, I would be shocked if they dont win.

I think Framework’s response handled this great. Focusing on open collaboration rather than ideological purity tests.

The politics of some of the contributors is questionable. But it's not illegal to have bad opinions and exercise free speech. And it's certainly not Frameworks job to morally vet every person they interact with.

I do not need to know about the political opinions of the people who grow my food, or change my tires, or build my tools. And I am getting growing tired of intersectional witch hunts, especially when we're getting to so many layers of abstraction.

The fact that framework leadership responded to this by effectively downplaying the issues raised in the OP shows me that they are deeply misguided. Very disappointing.