Hi, On 2026-04-25 11:46, Aryan Karamtoth wrote: > Framework seems to be interested in working with large distributions > like Ubuntu and Fedora to collaborate with the distros [5] . I believe > this could be the right opportunity for us to collaborate with a > hardware company to provide a better out-of-the-box experience with > Debian as Framework is very much interested in Linux. I wasn't aware of any controversy until some links were shared in this thread.
On those, I don't yet have the full context, but from what I've seen so far they donated money to a bunch of open source projects, and two of them weren't vetted to certain standards. That's not good, but I don't think painting them as evil for that is fair . Framework sponsored a laptop for me two years ago for some dev work, and I was totally surprised by how much I liked it. It's commitment to Linux support was night and day to most other companies I'd experienced by then. Things just work with Debian. And it's designed to be perfectly serviceable, with some parts interchangeable even between hardware versions. Isn't this exactly what we want to see from hardware companies? How many others are doing that? Demonizing someone for a misstep when they are otherwise going in a direction we very much agree with seems very misguided? It would be far more helpful *to us* to engage constructively, so that the direction is maintained, and missteps avoided, and to demonstrate to other hardware companies that this is a direction worth taking. >From this thread, the signal we are sending is entirely the opposite. Best, Christian
