source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/

DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million

DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we’re building.

  • Alavi@programming.dev
    8·
    1 hour ago

    Oh my god this whole Omarchy thing is so unbelievably corrupted.

    They’re laundering money while actual important FOSS projects are dying without funding.

  • keytonowhere@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 hours ago

    One of my favorite facts about O’Marky is how the firewall, one of two security features in this distro serious about security, wasn’t even enabled. They didn’t announce this gap to their users, just quietly marked it fixed. But they failed to fix it until well into the next major release.

  • sealhaslupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 hours ago

    omarchy is a bastardisation of what arch can offer.

    if dhh really cared about open-source, linux and arch, he should be using his platform to educate a wider audience on how to customise their own installs.

    reality is that he’s slop personified.

    • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      3 hours ago

      If someone that isn’t a Nazi wants to vibecode an OS, and takes it seriously enough to use the AI as a learning tool? Closing holes and patching bugs as they learn? I’m doen.

      Let’s go, I wanna join up. Should we make this as a NixOS flake?

      A Nazi whose primary skills are marketing, financial connections, and Managerial “experience”? Fuck all the way off.

      I feel a need to say “merry Kirkmas” in context. May dhh find rehab instead, and clean up his fucking mess.

  • NotAnonymousAtAal@feddit.org
    19·
    12 hours ago

    First time I ever heard anything about DHH (the main person that is now behind Omarchy) was when he announced he will stop using Typescript for one of his big projects, because the strict typing system makes it less fun than Javascript.

    That argument is on the same level as “seatbelts in cars are bad because they restrict my movement”, i.e. completely inane bullshit no sane person could take seriously.

    Somehow this evidently incompetent person stumbled into enough success to now be able to spout hateful political messages without serious repercussions.

    Usually when people start spouting hateful messages I lose respect for them, but there was nothing to lose in this case.

  • Feyd@programming.dev
    102·
    19 hours ago

    Even politics aside, I don’t understand why all these companies are donating to Omarchy. It doesn’t actually offer anything worth thinking about… which makes me think it’s about the politics.

    • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      39·
      19 hours ago

      It’s in the blurb. Pretty sure when he says “agentic OS”, he wants it to be the default OS for consumer AI crap. All you have to do these days is just hint at AI and companies will fall over themselves to throw money at you.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        20·
        18 hours ago

        I think I need to start a distro at this point. See if I can get a bunch of enterprise donators… Though I suspect I’m not white supremacist enough for them. But I AM a white male so if I just shut the fuck up maybe they’ll give me money anyways hoping that perhaps I share their views?

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    10·
    14 hours ago

    I start to believe that he paid the YouTubers money in order for them to do these videos listed on the website.

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
    22·
    17 hours ago

    I love this Omarchy thing: it’s helping separate the wheat from the chaff.

    I only wished there was a site that listed all the “bad” guys… they seem to be way more numerous than I imagined.

  • terabyterex@lemmy.world
    162·
    20 hours ago

    This isn’t programming related but i want the omarchy fundraiser person helping fund my project. Serriously i only need like 1%