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The Python Software Foundation turned down a $1.5M U.S. National Science Foundation grant after funding terms required abandoning diversity initiatives. The funds were intended to combat malware on PyPI, highlighting tensions between open-source ethics and government funding.

The Python Software Foundation has turned down its largest-ever grant—$1.5 million from the National Science Foundation—due to clauses prohibiting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives. The funds were intended for critical PyPI security upgrades to combat software supply chain attacks. This decision underscores the ethical tensions between government funding and open-source community values.

Framework, the modular laptop pioneer celebrated for its right-to-repair advocacy, faces severe community backlash over its aggressive promotion of Omarchy Linux—a project tied to controversial figure DHH. The crisis has triggered a volunteer moderator exodus and forced a reckoning about the ethics of platforming figures with extremist views in open-source ecosystems.