I'm out of the loop, what's going on? Why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?
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Omacom Foundation launches with $18.5 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first time in what seems like forever.
To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate.
This nonprofit foundation will hold the trademarks, fund the infrastructure, promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.
These twelve Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:
- Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
- Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
- Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
- Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
- Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
- Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
- Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
- Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
- Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
- Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
- Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
- Yours truly
These Founding Corporate Patrons are each contributing $1 million a year for three years or $1.5 million in tokens, with renewal by mutual agreement:
- DigitalOcean
- Meta Superintelligence Labs
It's like a condensed list of the shittiest of tech people, Sans Google
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Multiple people mentioned there are on the Epstein list. They probably misheard "kitty exploit" as "kiddy exploit".
If that many evil people/corpos are involved, run as fast as you can the other direction.
Give me community-based distros like Debian, Arch, Mint, etc. I like my Linux democratic, anti-corpo, and inclusive.
My theory is the tech bros and fascists are trying to get "theirs" in on the Linux side before windows completely sinks everywhere but business.
Gonna have to set up some time during the weekend to help a friend migrate some infra off DO. To where? Who knows.
wtf is even happening
arch people can't catch a break it's tragic
Ah good, the last bit of motivation i needed to get my final VM off DO.
Wonderful news.
This too shall pass.
Grunge question. I'm very much a surface-level Linux user. But is Omarchy more than just a hyprland rice?
Omarchy is a Linux distro developed by the guy this article is about.
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Shame. I liked digital ocean
I think Omacom is just the small fish "player" wanna-be's trying to do what the big guys are doing with AI. Playing 3 card monte with a few million dollars running the same few bucks around in circles so many times a quarter they all get to make numbers go big on balance sheet in the hopes of getting new real money from idiot "investors" before the FTC (or other regulatory body) wakes up and remembers they are supposed to regulate something occasionally and catches on.
that makes me want to set up a DO account just so i can delete it!
And with that after probably more then ten years of a DO VPS I'm in the process of moving it. Bonus to a Canadian provider.