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Mostly right, it was also far more than anything else brought up by FW twitter, but there was financial support in hardware as well (mentioned by nrp, and oddly enough, not detailed in the blog post).

As well as one other item (quoting myself here):

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

A great question. MNT would probably be the best answer - open source hardware to create open source hardware, uses the fediverse, F/LOSS focused, no venture capitalists/investors, etc.

https://mntre.com/index.html

If we go most ethical option right now, I’d say its keeping the hardware you have running. Framework is far more niche, which is where it becomes a brand statement more quickly than, say, grabbing a used thinkpad and dropping linux on it.

Edit: Just to mention, I’ve been debating getting a Pocket Reform for myself of late. I might build my own though with some changes, and just get the board from them.

Plenty of right wingers get one thing right, and being able to repair something isnt inherently anti-capitalist either.

Edit: To quote someone I just saw on the FW forum, who is 100% a DHH supporting right winger:

Not necessarily. Right to repair is of course positive for the environment as it reduces waste. But I think that’s a consequential effect rather than main objective.

They see the main object as saving money. Which… is really funny to me, because the most cost effective would be to sell your whatever laptop after a few years and buy new, framework is nowhere near a cost effective choice.

But anyway.

Already have, along with my concerns about the outsized money going to essentially DHH events.

Might even sell my FW, I don’t think I want to be associated with the brand at all.

I detailed it out in comments elsewhere, but Omarchy was not directly financially supported. It did receive outsized promotion (not just a few twitter posts), but the real telling part is in events.

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

For a hardware company, thats kinda weird. Hackaday Supercon and Hack Club were the only ones to receive more than RailsWorld. Hackaday makes clear sense, and I would say Hack Club does as well. Rails World though? How?

And one more bit to note - nrp has acknowledged that FW provided DHH with equipment, but oddly, that was left off the list, despite listing others such as 1 unit to Nixcon, 3 units to LabsCon, and 2 to RISC-V International.

https://frame.work/blog/framework-sponsorships

This is the blog post where you’ll see the money. DHH is Omarchy and Rails, Vaxry is Hyprland. Hyprland got, functionally, a pittance, and Vaxry (while on the right) I don’t personally see as being anywhere near as terrible as DHH.

If you want to know about DHH, rather than read articles, you can look at his blog directly. - https://world.hey.com/dhh. Scan the titles of posts and you’ll find his positions pretty quickly, and you can read the posts themselves where he references the white replacement conspiracy theory and more.

I absolutely agree that its great that they support the right to repair. That is, to me, what makes the response here so disappointing.

I personally do not want my money to feed the far right, and the simple fact is, that is where a portion of framework purchasing is going. These are not projects where there is a person or two within a large group who are far right, but projects where they are the project fundamentally. What throws me as well is the choice of Hyprland (financially) and Omarchy (marketing - heavy, heavy marketing). Even more odd, DHH again with Rails World with an alarming amount of money - five times what they gave to the Linux Foundation, double what they gave to Gnome, 2.5 times what they gave to the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, 50 times what they gave to the Open Hardware Summit, 12 times what they gave to KDE Akademy and DebConf…

Writing that out makes it feel even weirder. Rails World. How in the hell does Rails World even fit in with what Framework does?

It isn’t just supporting a few shitty people in a mix of other things, its far outsized support.

Framework has directly and indirectly supported devs that are far right, one much more hard right than the other, but both are far right.

The direct is money. Indirect is marketing.

You don’t really need to dig into anything here, those two sentences sums up the entire situation.

I still dont see it there

Because the “update” to the blog post was:

Note that this list does not include products sent for marketing use or R&D use

As a way to not talk about DHH/Omarchy directly, or the promotion they were doing (which was many times more than anything else they were talking about).

I mean, its twitter. Its almost entirely fascist tech bros there.

This definitely had a negative impact on my view of framework, can’t say I’d buy from them again.

Which can be solved by an additional server.

Boom, problem solved.

Business discard pile is my favorite pile!

It broke some things (horrifically) for me because headers didn’t get updated, modules didn’t get rebuilt.

To make it worse, I didn’t set it up. That shit is disabled now. Defunct. Toast. Never again to run.

I think it means we like to be able to make full use…

Whether its a couple of servers with 4416+'s with 128GB ram and a pair of rtx 6000s or an 11yr old thinkpad w/8GB ram, its not the OS getting in my way.

Debian primarily, though I also have arch running on another box. But I basically only run Debian across the board. Almost all stable, with some Trixie and Sid for testing. I also won’t touch Gnome unless I’m forced to, so keep in mind I’m opinionated and hold grudges when you see my recommendations.

Got it, yeah went right over my head

West Wing I think?

He also is married to Megan Mullally, who makes an appearance as his ex wife in Parks & Rec. Highly recommended show. Feel free to skip season 1 though.

The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.

Especially since they are talking about all the money they will save cutting jobs.

Based on the time frames for this, I’m going to guess by the end of 2026 the engineering team will shrink, followed by a 2027 announcement of merging departments for better management, and RedHat basically be just IBM entirely by 2028.

If I still had any servers on RH for work, I’d be planning my moves right about now (personally I started the shift after the 2023 announcement on source code availability, finalized the last three servers in June actually).

Really quite a shame to see how things have changed.

Anyway, I’d suspect there are at least a couple years left before its a mess.

Legal, hr, finance, and accounting is now IBM, and IBM has noted job cuts as part of the cost savings in its profit forecasting.

Engineering, product, sales, and marketing are not making any changes - yet.

I would note that IBM is also now pushing its “enhanced AI” support over speaking with actual people, unless you have an upgraded support tier. Basic support tier can also no longer escalate cases.

I would agree in not needing to rush anywhere, but I would have to say this looks like the start of enshittification for sure.