Lobste.rs

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to).

I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Edit to add: This is a comment I recently added deep in this thread, but pasting it here so that folks don’t need to dig through to find it:

Update on Oct 14th, 2025:\

A number of folks have reached out to us over the last few days to ask that we share more about which organizations we sponsor. This is certainly something we should have been doing already for transparency, and today we’ve published the list of all of our 2025 sponsorships so far, which total around $215,000. We’ll be keeping this list up to date over time. In addition, we would love nominations of a broader set of mission-aligned organizations we can sponsor, and we’ve created a submission form for this. As you can see from the list for this year, our focus is primarily around funding organizations developing Linux distros and window managers, open source firmware, educational organizations doing open source hardware development, and open source infrastructure that our hardware products and website depend on.

Since this thread started in part around our donation to Hyprland, we wanted to provide additional specific context there. We decided a few months ago to be more deliberate about funding the maturity of the Linux desktop by providing support to both distros and window managers. On the latter, we started sponsorship discussions with the GNOME Foundation ($1,000/month), KDE Foundation ($10,000/year), and Hyprland (600€/month) at the same time, with the plan to announce them together. We sent the funding to Hyprland and GNOME Foundation last week, and have been working with KDE Foundation to finalize our sponsorship. We’ve also been working with GNOME Foundation on announcement timing, as they needed to update the sponsor list on their site. We missed on letting Hyprland know that we wanted to announce these together, and they shared the sponsorship shortly after receiving it last week.

On Hyprland specifically, we were aware that there was past toxicity and controversy in their community, so we did research into it before deciding if we could sponsor the project. What we found was that there were past failures in moderation early in the creation of the project that had resulted in a toxic community, that the project lead vaxry had overhauled moderation years ago as a result, and that the community as it currently stands does not represent the one in which the issues occurred. Over the last few days, we’ve gotten additional outreach from others in the community who were initially concerned about our sponsorship of Hyprland who did their own research and came to a similar conclusion to what we did.

Going forward on this topic:

1. We are going to continue to update our list of sponsorships as we go to give transparency on what we’re monetarily backing. As noted above, in general we want to coordinate the updates with the organizations we sponsor so that their website updates and announcements happen around the same time as ours.
2. We’re requesting that you provide additional nominations of mission-aligned organizations that we should sponsor. Note that in the near-to-mid term, we’re still prioritizing organizations focused on open source firmware, software, and hardware that make the ecosystem around our products more mature and accessible. If you have recommendations of other good organizations, please feel free to submit those in the form as well, but they may come into future funding cycles.
3. Before we sponsor an organization, we will continue to research and confirm that as they currently exist, they uphold appropriate community standards and are structurally set up for that to continue to be the case.
4. Although this thread has continuously spiraled into unproductive directions that have needed active moderation, we do still plan to keep it open for now and merge additional related new threads into it. Please remember to follow our forum rules though and keep conversation productive and free of personal attacks.