Not sure if they are a large part of framework’s consumers, or just very vocal in that thread.

Tbf I don’t know much about the Hyprland history. The point raised by the OP on the forum links to tweets by both framework and Hyprland accounts saying framework became a “gold tier sponsor” of hyprland. It’s fair to assume that involves a donation.

Don’t cherrypick a single issue raised by the OP to pretend the whole discussion is about that, please