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Framework supporting far-right racists? (community.frame.work)
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Title of the (concerning) thread on their community forum, not voluntary clickbait. Came across the thread thanks to a toot by @Khrys@mamot.fr (French speaking)

The gist of the issue raised by OP is that framework sponsors and promotes projects lead by known toxic and racists people (DHH among them).

I agree with the point made by the OP :

The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that want to exterminate the others.

I'm disappointed in framework's answer so far

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'm posting my take here before reading any comments, but I will be looking for validation or good counter arguments:

This feels like Framework admitting that the opensource community is too small to exclude anyone, or maybe that they feel they can't exclude anyone because doing so would damage their ability to do business? I'm not picking up a "we love nazis" vibe, I'm picking up a "nazis are fucking everywhere, what do you want us to do, for fucks sake" vibe.

I don't know how I feel about that yet.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

There are a whole bunch of distros and window managers/compositors that aren't developed by nazis. I think we will be fine if we exclude those that are.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 8 points 7 hours ago

I get the impression a lot of people think that framework are a lot bigger than they actually are, in reality they are not much more than a start up