Nik
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Choosing to use Framework (given that they're more expensive than competing brands) **is a political choice**, based on their previous values.
Continuing to use them, now that you know they're happy to fund groups that would happily see e.g. other software maintainers deported, interred, or worse, **is also a political choice**.
If you haven't already, go read up on the paradox of tolerance.
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https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2
> we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.
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But as far as I can see, no one's making that claim.
So if their ToS is strong enough, and they do enforce it, this doesn't seem to be much more than a CEO who needs much better media training and briefing.
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Elsewhere in the interview he said that Notes is covered by their ToS, and the interviewer said that his hypothetical would be banned by the ToS.