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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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I'll admit I'm not up to date on the hyprland/vaxry lore -- but I don't understand the level of outrage based on this article...
I'm also not sure why the sponsorship of a software project is necessarily being treated as a 100% endorsement of both the maintainers and their alleged views.
I'm also not sure if infighting and purity testing will help the movement(s) right now. Once it's the norm, sure, but it's still a relatively fringe movement within the industry.
Edit (2025-10-15@20:14): At the time of writing my comment, I was both unaware (and uninformed) on the DHH side of this topic. While I still think the level of outrage is maybe a melodramatic, the push back seems more warranted than it initially seemed to me. I still don't know much about DHH beyond Rails (and even then, not much); but from what I've seen since my comment, the response is more understandable.
If we deleted everything written by insufficiently pure developers, we wouldn't have a Linux desktop. Especially if we count the ones that were smart enough to not bring up anything political in public.
Not a fan of DHH, but then you delete Rails then there's no GitHub, GitLab, Mastodon, and many many other things given how popular Rails is, and that's just that one guy.
If you include all the sketchy stuff that happens in the supply chain mining the minerals, processing, assembly all the way up to the final computer product, you just can't morally justify supporting any manufacturer either.
This really doesn't do anything useful other than feeling good to not support one of those guys. If anything it just adds extra political drama that feeds into a much bigger worldwide division problem.
@Max_P @stewie410 This is just wrong. Taking a stand against things like this causes change for the better in the long run. Rails will survive without DHH, like Linux survived without Reiserfs and MySQL survived after Larry Ellison. There may be some pain involved, but we owe it to ourselves to tread the better path, and make bad people just socially unacceptable.
As I added in another comment, I misunderstood the DHH element of the discourse as I, admittedly, don't know much of anything about him -- I've heard some references here and there, but that's about it.
That's also fine, and I generally agree. My concern basically boils down to killing momentum by sinking a company with (probably?) sane views on right-to-repair & libre as topics.
If the goal of a boycott is to starve the company until it goes under, because they made a move we don't like -- then that I don't really like in this context. If the goal is to force their hand towards at least transparency, or maybe force NP to step down; then I'd support that.