"Alignment with the far right" is a complete misrepresentation.
Framework sponsors a few open source Linux projects, some of which have contributors with controversial opinions. Describing these projects as "far right" is completely unfair to the hundreds of people who have worked on them.
The common refrain is that companies should sponsor more open source projects. Apparently they also need to be the "correct" open source projects.
I think this "backdoor" could be just a mistake as eclypsium disclosed it to framework and they fixed it as per the article. Does that still warrant them to be in your never buy list? I personally think it makes them reputable as they swiftly fix problems that arise. I do own a framework so im obviously biased as I've had a good experience with it. What is this far right alignment you mentioned?
The article's title unfortunately makes it sound like this is a problem unique to Framework laptops.
However, they do mention in the article that "this situation is not unique to Framework"
I really admire what Framework has been trying to build. Glad that they were able to fix this issue promptly!
First the alignment with the far right, and now a hidden backdoor? I think Framework is officially on my "never buy" list.
"Alignment with the far right" is a complete misrepresentation.
Framework sponsors a few open source Linux projects, some of which have contributors with controversial opinions. Describing these projects as "far right" is completely unfair to the hundreds of people who have worked on them.
The common refrain is that companies should sponsor more open source projects. Apparently they also need to be the "correct" open source projects.
I think this "backdoor" could be just a mistake as eclypsium disclosed it to framework and they fixed it as per the article. Does that still warrant them to be in your never buy list? I personally think it makes them reputable as they swiftly fix problems that arise. I do own a framework so im obviously biased as I've had a good experience with it. What is this far right alignment you mentioned?
El Reg has a good summary of the sponsorship controversies:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_contr...