Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.

Antoine Beaupré, aka anarcat , demanded that Framework clarify its political position with regard to these two projects.

Hyprland, a Wayland compositor, is led by a " toxic and hateful community ," Beaupré observed, and Omarchy, a Linux distribution, comes from David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH), a controversial figure in the Ruby and Linux communities.

"[I]f Framework keeps not only proposing and enabling toxic communities to its users but even sponsoring them, I'm afraid that not on

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