I hadn't heard about this before, so in case anyone else is also curious and wants to save some googling, it sounds like was a few months ago when they sponsored Hyprland[1]. I hadn't heard about controversy with Hyprland before, only being vaguely aware of it, but the forum thread I linked to further links to this blog post[2] with more details.

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-righ... [2]: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

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akimbostrawman 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

drewdevault should be the last person anybody uses as a judge of character or facts

https://dmpwn.info/

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preisschild 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have more of an Issue with the Omarchy sponsorship. While i disagree with Hyprland's maintainer at least Hyprland is actually engineering something great and making it free software. Omarchy is basically just a script.

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zbuttram 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not a fan of either but I feel obligated to point out they don't appear to be sponsoring Omarchy, they just posted about it on their social media account(s). Hyprland they actually did do a small sponsorship for.

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jsheard 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I think there might be a mixup with Cloudflare, who are sponsoring Omarchy.

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varun_ch 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Omarchy is the passion project of a really wealthy person and is backed by his profitable business. What does ‘sponsoring Omarchy’ mean? Like.. where does that money go?

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jsheard 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-the-future-of-the-ope...

I think it amounts to providing free premium CDN service, the stuff you'd usually have to pay for. They didn't say anything about cash money changing hands.

	▲	varun_ch 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s really reasonable then (I guess apart from any disagreements with the authors views). Omarchy isn’t just a post installation script, they have the entire thing bundled as an ISO. So I can see why an in-kind sponsorship of a CDN makes sense. Although it’s still unclear to me how Omarchy specifically fits into ‘the future of the open web’ vs Ladybird