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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

  • earthworm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    The assumption is that they believe a not-insignificant portion of their customers are fascist or fascist-adjacent.

    If everyone upset about this boycotted and tanked their bottom line, they’d probably shift gears in a heartbeat.

    But I suspect that the number of fascist/fascist-adjacent customers is high enough that they need both groups’ money to survive.

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 days ago

      Well being tolerant with fascists is a no no.

      We’re taking about being tolerant with a company that’s tolerant of fascists.

      If I’m tolerant of that, would you tolerate me? Where do we draw the line?

      Not trolling, but I get that it sounds that way .

      • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        If I’m tolerant of that, would you tolerate me? Where do we draw the line?

        You have to tolerate everyone until they are actively intolerant. If you jump the gun on not tolerating someone or something too early, then you’re being intolerant.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Most of the laptops framework sells are sold with a windows license. Only a small subset of their small subset of Linux customers are technical enough to consider which compositor they’re using, and even fewer of them are even aware that hyperland exists and is a fascist project.

      This is very in the weeds. Considering this deliberately marketing to fascists, or indicative of the company’s assumptions about their customers broadly is an insane stretch.

      Framework sells microsoft products in their store, when microsoft is actively involved in helping the IDF commit genocide in Gaza. Framework bundles microsoft products in the pre-built versions of their computers. That is far more indicative of their attitudes to their customers than their donations to open source.

      Keep the pressure on, do what you can to make open source better and uninviting to fascists, but keep perspective of reality while you do it.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Most of the laptops framework sells are sold with a windows license.

        Is this true? I thought they were specifically marketed to tech people because of the repairability and modularity. I didn’t even know Windows users were aware that Framework exists.