This is getting into policy debate which isnāt the point of this thread, Iād rather not derail.
I will say that in the United States and United Kingdom (from what Iāve heard from others there), these issues are important, they matter to people. Numerous surveys have been conducted that prove these (among other issues) are major issues for voters, for example, immigration especially.
This thread is so miserable tbh. If you are mad that the open software platform supports open software then just get an HP laptop or something. There are a thousand places where you can go talk politics instead of here.
Interesting political statement written out of anger
Edit: Ah cool, you just created an account. You know, instead of taking few minutes to consider, then to register, verify your email, write a political statement about why talking about politics is miserable, you could have instead spent that precious 5 minutes submitting a patch or two to a FOSS project
I have been here a long time. I like this community. It is a good community. This thread, on all sides, is not its finest moment.
Edit to add - I like this community because it is largely comprised of people who care and who want to help. I have received more from it than I ever can give back, and I dearly hope that it continues to operate that way.
With that said, I wish everyone here all the happiness that they ever could imagine, and more. Everyone, be well.
No problem - and yeah, I completely agree with you. Itās a shame that many of us have to go through these experiences (threats, etc.) regularly, and then need to repeatedly recall and relive those traumatic experiences to ājustifyā to each and every person who asks for āevidenceā.
So this really isnāt a reply to MarcoJ but is moreso some statistics of the 1080+ comments
I went through about 600 posts from the start and noted each unique user who joined in on this discussion and voiced their opinion. I rated each userās stance as
For sponsorship
Against sponsorship
Unknown (for various reasons such as having their message hidden)
unsure (if itās not clear enough to deduce)
The results are thus
Out of 164 users⦠(As of this edit there are 243 unique users in this discussion)
38 have voiced support for sponsorship,
117 have voiced that they are against sponsorship.
as a percentage that is 75.5% (75.48) or to put it another way, out of a 100 people, 75 would be against framework sponsoring HyprLand and Omarchy.
It is thus that a great number of people do not support this. I accept there might be a few mistakes in my data collection and judgement but I donāt think thereās many. You are welcome to review my data or conduct your own analysis of the thread.
And out of the remaining 80ish unique users I havenāt looked at, itās unlikely to be overturned. It would have to be almost all of them saying theyāre for sponsorship.
Now some folks will say, oh this is brigading or oh this is just activists, in an effort to discredit the majority. Iām sure most are nice people in real life, but I donāt think they are engaging in good faith today. A lot of it feels low effort and I think we should ignore them. Theyāre not here to understand why so many people arenāt happy and the only reason they see that a majority of people arenāt happy, is we must be āactivistā (used derogatorily) or we must be brigading, or even that Weāre not real fans of framework.
Beware of extrapolating beyond what is in this thread or this forum. Also, what is the count of individuals who have expressed no opinion one way or the other?
I think itās the best we have. @I_FW_FW and itās better than whatās been suggested by the very few who have been for sponsorship that weāre a minority.
The ones who have expressed an unknown opinion one way or another are indicated and explained. More often itās because their message has been hidden. At most 9 people out of 164.