Today I received 500 euros and bunch of merch for my RISC-V student team named SemiTO-V that participates in Maker Faire Rome 2025. Just like Framework team, we are an inclusive, diverse team of international students from Italy, Iran, India, Turkey and China. Roughly 40% of our members are women. We have LGBTQ+ people as members as well. We are all united under this team for one purpose: Developing RISC-V chips and improving RISC-V ecosystem, thus making open hardware more open and better. Itâs why Framework is a perfect company and their laptops are perfect platforms to test motherboards with RISC-V based chips.
This is a prime example that Framework, as always, is fully committed to diverse and inclusive spaces. Most of the projects and people that they support, that our money goes to, are like us, like themselves. Bazzite is another prime example of that. Framework is OUR company! Letâs keep it afloat!
This would be the case if we got such support directly from someone like DHH, but that isnât the case. Nirav is an indian-american minority and repeatedly claimed to be a progressive (and has proven so repeatedly with his actions when you look at the big picture that is 5 years of open hardware and inclusive diverse company atmosphere). Even if he wasnât a progressive, the company definitely is an inclusive one. Them giving a single laptop to DHH doesnât change that fact and its practically addressed as Omarchy is not listed as a sponsored project in recent blog post and Framework social media accounts not posting about Omarchy anymore (they just post any interesting project regarding OSS/OSHWA, doesnât mean they sponsor any of those).
This is the big takeaway. I love that we have a prominent company supporting Open Source firsthand. My FW12 is the best OOTB Linux experience I have ever had, and I develop UNIX toolchains. Plus this is the first laptop that has given me the confidence that this can last for at least 5-8 years, because of the repair-ability.
If we donât survive, itâs back to the Apple/Dell/HP/Lenovo status quo. I hope Framework takes the right takeaway, incorporates community feedback, and continues to be inclusive as they always have been.
Itâs called a PR pirouette. They just deflected the question we asked them (âwhy support hateful people ?â) and dodged the reaction we were waiting for (âsorry for that, we get itâ).
FW is not YOUR company. You just love it (i did). Do you own shares ? Do not wait anything from it besides making repairable stuff -which is great, but also not enough from my POV. The day it will be forbidden to sponsor projects from visibly inclusive groups -and believe me, that day is coming fast in the US-, FW will just go with the flow and simply forget about your existence and possibly sponsor more hateful people than DHH.
Itâs crazy to see the level of devotion people can have towards a business.
Hey folks, letâs keep this thread to celebrate SemiTO-V âs project. If youâd like to talk about other topics, please use the designated threads, thank you!
I donât understand. There is nothing controversial in that original post.
Please donât look for controversy where there is none.
It is just someone saying what a great team they have.
