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They just founded the Foundation, and the money has not been allocated yet. But Hyperland, Quickshell, and some others already got 3 year sponsorship deals.

The AUR maintainers refused the cooperation and the money. So they will start working on new package management for Omarchy.

My guess, though, is that most of the money will go to DHH's obsession with Macs and anti-Apple stance (porting Linux to work on M architecture), either by directly funding Asahi Linux or by forking it to speed up development.

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I highly doubt the current crop of Asahi people would take money from DHH.

Yup, that's why I think they will fork it.

So much money to spend and no one will take it...

Omarchy ISO is downloaded 20000 times A DAY. It's in the top 3 distros now. Only very sad and delusional people hate its success. I pity them, but I don’t want them anywhere near me.

it also seems highly unlikely that dhh would even reach out to asahi to ask

They've already said that they refuse to work with DHH, which is fine, but the Asahi Devs and Arch Linux Devs have let politics overtake their entire existance and I'm happy someone is finally changing the status quo and shaking things up.

Let money actually go to competant people and not leftists that will ban you from their entire ecosystem if you even slightly disagree with their politics.

DHH is bringing more politics, and mostly hate at that, into this space than any other person.

What politics is he bringing?

White nationalism: I highly recommend reading these posts by people in the Rails community:

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

These are some examples from the source:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

Omarchy means Hitler in Danish.

Could you explain where this comes from? I dislike DHH as much as the rest, but I thought Hitler was just referred to as Hitler in danish?

That was a joke.

Kinda like saying that in modern feminese, "man" means "rapist".

I won’t repeat the numerous political blog posts he’s constantly posting these days for a so-called “tech only” guy.

Instead I’ll say that he’s currently doing a big podcast tour where he explicitly whines about how his employees pushed him to (he elides this part) remove a “funny list of customer names” on the grounds of said list being racially charged. And since he was “bullied” into doing that, he’s been on a tear lately declaring tech to be filled to the brim with political lunatics who just want to inject politics into everything. The precise thing that he’s still doing, years later.

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