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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:

The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists

  • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    528·
    2 days ago

    If the community reacts super strongly to this before framework even has the chance to properly investigate, respond, and react to this kind of issue, why would they ever want to risk investing in open source projects in the future? Come on, people. Give them time and if you have to hate on a company hate on the bigger ones that do these sorts of things on purpose and get away with it. I understand informing Framework and putting pressure on them to fix things, but there’s such a thing as going too far.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      1 day ago

      If it weren’t for the out of touch, deeply offensive responses they already made, this likely would not have blown up. The fact that they responded in such a dismissive, disgusting way is the reason this is news.

      • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
        6·
        23 hours ago

        I would have been happy with a corpo

        “We will be reviewing our philanthropic practices going forward.”

        With pure neutral tone and no mention of the politics.

        That’s the corpo correct answer. And its concerning they didn’t give that.

    • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33·
      2 days ago

      They already made one (very poor) response and that’s what’s got most people doubling down to keep the pressure on them to change their stance. I really dont see how a bunch of forum posts could possibly be “too far”.