With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship efforts.
Red Hat in employing lead developer Richard Hughes has contributed the most to LVFS/Fwupd’s success, the Linux Foundation has also hosted the project since it has shifted into their umbrella, AMD’s Mario Limonciello is among the significant contributors, and now Framework Computer is a new sponsor to the project.
Who cares? I left the big tent a while ago.
You nor this article say wtf is LVFS
A system to get firmware updates (BIOS, Touchpad and much more) like regular software updates on Linux.
I acquired a wds19 usb C dock for the mrs’ macbook. I was plugged into it yesterday and did an apt upgrade, and it offered to update the firmware of the dock and the wireless mouse and keyboard.
No 500mb spyware tray applets, no .bin file on a sd card, no dos 6.2 live boot shenanigans.
The dell office machines and Mac could never dream of such power!
That’s a Dell dock, isn’t it? Dell PCs use the same system.
Given the precedent with Framework: does somebody know if the maintainer of FWUpd is right-wing?
This might be damage control
I continue to contribute in the most minor way to both, and it’s very true that Hughes LARGELY runs this repo. This is becoming a problem, especially since the majority of companies do not contribute, though they use the upstream just like everyone else.
If Amazon, Google, Dell, Hetzner, Equinox, DR, DO…etc all paid their fair share, they’d be able to pay honest contributors just simply for making what is already available MORE readily available. That’s what this project is about.
On the hardware manufacturer side: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Realtek…etc are also not chipping in.
This is a CRUCIAL project for larger adoption for home users. Yes, most enterprise-sized companies manage their own semver releases for firmware, but they still use these tools. They should contribute, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but a miniscule amount of money for them to do so to ensure the same people making this such a success can continue to do so.
That’s great to hear!
Cool, but I don’t care how big Framework makes their tent. They will not see a cent from me.
Purity testing everything you use means you have to get off Lemmy, if you look at the statements from some of the core devs. It is no way to live and is pretty much incompatible with being on the internet. Framework is clearly doing more good than harm, and while no company is perfect or immune from critique, feedback from customers does more than knee-jerk comments from people with no stakes.
It’s not a purity test, it’s boycotting an admitted Nazi friendly organization. When Framework chose to embrace, financially support, and then when called out on it, specifically state that the Nazis are welcome in their big tent, that tent became a Nazi tent. That’s not a tent me or many others want to be in, because that makes the Nazis feel welcome and free to attack anyone else in the tent with no repercussions and with the full, spoken support of Framework.
Fuck that, and fuck you if you don’t like it.
Counterpoint. This line of thinking is what got me living under an ACTUAL fascist regime right now. People did purity testing with Harris on whatever issue, pick your poison (Gaza, police accountability, etc) and it moved the needle. How much will never be known, but a chunk of people spent so much time listening to talking heads and streamers that they decided to not vote for her. And now we have Trump, destabilizing the world, letting a guy with brain worms decide everyone’s health. Harris would have been the best option by far even if she was not perfect, but fixing good was always a better option than rejecting not-perfect. If framework goes away, good luck getting another right-to-repair first org to build hardware. There has never been a better time to make the point “stop purity testing things, acknowledge when things are the better option, and work to make them even better.” All this “us vs. them” and using language that paints anything as black or white moves the needle on people passively reading comments, and does actual harm. Living in a world without a grey area does actual harm.
I phone banked for Harris but she was making our jobs harder by taking unpopular positions. What will you have me say to the voter who won’t vote for a Newsom presidency because they take AIPAC money? Because I was told to just move on and call the next person.
You tell them to plug their nose and swallow the medicine because the consequences of not choosing the better of 2 options in a 2 party system is loss of life and rights for innumerable people all over the world.
I don’t think I have ever seen that explanation work on someone who is misinformed, but if I am proven wrong then the world will be a better place.
America ended up in a fascist regime because liberals wanted cheaper eggs and became convinced only Donald Trump could make it happen.
Your analogy is bogus because this is the Fediverse and we can defederate from tankies without giving them money. The entire topic revolves around how Framework spends money. Whataboutism in this context is a classic defense of fascism, for what it’s worth.
This isn’t purity testing, this is not giving money to fascist fucks who actually want to see me and my family dead.
No, I just don’t give them any money. If I were to procure a Framework Laptop by means of a genie wish, I would still use it. I am probably using a ton of open source software right now made by people I can’t stand. Also I can purity check and boycott whoever I like, whenever I like. I don’t have to live by your rules. You do you.
Do you intend to purchase a new laptop from another vendor?
So you won’t buy the most user maintainable and repairable laptop, that also comes with Linux and probably worth open source firmware in the not too distant future because you don’t like the politics of the owner of an open source project the company supports?
That really feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face
Just get a Thinkpad or build a desktop lol. Who said anything about cutting off our noses?
I mean, when the political stance of the supported company is “I would literally murder you of I could” the politics become kinda relevant 🥲
Is that some hyperbole? Or is there a source to that? I’m out of the loop*, so apologies for my ignorance.
Yes… But sadly no? First example that comes to mind, you can check “dhh blog” on the internet (🤮) and if you read enough you will get to see the kind of person he is… You can also check this about Hyprland: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
What why? What happened??
They openly support fashtech like Hyperland and the “distro” Omarchy. In response to the well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel tried to hand wave the issue away by talking about how they want “a big tent" for open source”, completely ignoring the nazi cunts behind the projects they support.
If you want to know more details here a two articles:
Why do you use Lemmy, given the politics of its own source creator? Bit hypocritical.
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Not to speak for them but bare minimum one is supporting them monetarily, one is free
You’re not directly paying them, but by being here and contributing to the community, you’re providing value to others who would then go on to donate to the devs.
I’m sure I can also find some fascists who work on the linux kernel. As long as I don’t support them directly I am just fine with using linux. But go on, keep moving the goal posts.
There is no “one community” in the traditional sense, in fact many of us are boycotting contributions to their actual community/instance .ml
By contributing activity to comms on other instances and advocating growth on other instances and even advocating alternatives like PieFed, actually dilutes their influence
Lemmy devs aren’t nazis
So transphobia and authoritarianism are totally cool just as long as they don’t wear Hugo Boss?
Who knew.
Maybe not, but they still push authoritarianism and simp for authoritarian regimes like Russia
God is that a retarded take… “fashtech”… i cannot stop shaking my head
“Retarded take”
Your choice of words shows your true colors. You don’t like it when I call out your associates for what they are?
You really don’t see it, right? This whole “Oh my god, he is a fash!” talk has to be a godsend for big tech and the corpos as a whole. Instead of cooperating - even with people who might hate your guts in another setting, and fighting THE MAN - you rather opt for infighting and purity testing. If you would think about it - just for a minute - you would discover that you have more in common with an ultra conservative, confederate flag waving redneck than with the “nice, diverse, clean and woke” corporations and organisations who are removing freedom from us all, cut by cut, slice by slice…
Why, did I miss something?
