Can’t sleep so caught up on the Framework drama a bit. The Hyprland bit in particular, as it seemed a lot more interesting.
I don’t have the full picture and haven’t done that much research. But.
I see is some regrettable behaviour from a few years ago – arguably a bit more nuanced than what the leading narrative makes it look like. It’s mostly referred to through multiple layers of indirection (a mastodon post here, a blog post there), rarely as pointing to a primary source, pretty much never with context.
I also see people making amends, apologizing, regretting the regrettable and improving. In not that long of a time span, frankly – especially for someone who was 20 at the time of the regrettable events being brought up. The amends and regrets are almost never brought up, by the way.
Some time has passed and some things have changed. People have changed, arguably for the better, at least from what I can see. I won’t be linking to anything and pointing out anything specific, and that’s deliberate:
Because I encourage you to dig it up and see for yourself.
I’m not saying you should, or must, form an opinion about this. The world is too complicated already, it’s fine to say “I don’t care about this drama or another, I’ll make my mind up when the dust settles”. Which is very reasonable given that I don’t think enough time has passed for Framework itself to do proper research, make up their minds and post an actual statement.
But please, please, before you signal boost either side of this conversation, dig in and see for yourself. Because some of the accusations flying around in this space are fucking wild. And I’m really tired of seeing stuff in my feed that people just blindly repeat and repost because they sympathize with the narrative. Do better. There’s enough shit-flinging already.
