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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
@stevestreza There was this recent discussion about #Omarchy and the #Omacon foundation donations:
https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117191718220401381
From me:
https://chaos.social/@frumble/117196596211676170
A thread from me: https://chaos.social/@frumble/117176445350575164
You're kidding right? It's the fascism.
@stevestreza @lisamelton their morals probably align with omarchy’s owner/whatever-title-ha-has?
@stevestreza @Gargron @nixCraft I think you’re underestimating how little people pay attention to most Linux projects and how much press DHH has gotten over this one. I don’t think it’s too dissimilar from why the best music and film is never the most popular.
@stevestreza Omarchy looks to me like a marketing vehicle. Putting money in it and your name on it is like putting your logo on an F1 team or football club.
I know next to nothing about Omarchy. But if it can lure devs away from Apple (or MS) and onto Linux that would be cool.
@stevestreza Maybe trying to seed another Canonical type business? Back in the 00s that was styled more like a community project even as Shuttleworth was ploughing money into a start-up. But then from what I have seen of Omarchy I am not sure how it's design is well suited to that.
tech journalism is arguably the most corrupted subfield of journalism given its target audience is either addicted to tech, financially strapped to it, or both
@stevestreza that is what I find curious too. Why do much and why now all at the same time?
@stevestreza legitimately do not understand what advantages omarchy has over just installing pi on fedora that warrants 13 mil
@stevestreza Omarchy is great and calling DHH a white supremacist cheapens the word
@danger__dan https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 Defend his words then.
@stevestreza seems pretty reasonable to me?
> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.
For context, many of the Romani people are citizens. Where do you deport native citizens?
@danger__dan So you're just a troll then.
@stevestreza But it's still unlikely to make any money. Still feels like there's a deeper scam involved.
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@stevestreza There was this recent discussion about #Omarchy and the #Omacon foundation donations:
https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117191718220401381
From me:
https://chaos.social/@frumble/117196596211676170
A thread from me: https://chaos.social/@frumble/117176445350575164