Omacom Foundation Launches With $8M From Tech Leaders
The backing of eight high-profile tech executives gives DHH's Omarchy Linux a serious funding base to push the 'year of the Linux desktop' agenda forward.
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David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has founded the Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Linux distribution Omarchy. The foundation launched with $8 million in donations, including $1 million each from eight tech figures such as Jack Dorsey, Michael Dell, and Patrick Collison. The foundation holds Omarchy's trademark, funds infrastructure, and supports dependent open-source software.
David Heinemeier Hansson has put real money behind his Linux push. The Omacom Foundation, a non-profit he founded to promote Omarchy, his Arch-based Linux distribution, starts with $8 million raised from eight donors who each gave $1 million.
The donor list reads like a who's who of tech: Shopify's Tobi Lütke, Stripe's Patrick Collison, Dell's Michael Dell, Block's Jack Dorsey, Cloudflare's Matthew Prince, Oculus's Brendan Iribe, and 37signals's Jason Fried, alongside Hansson himself.
Omarchy is an "omakase" type Linux that ships with Neovim, Chromium, Obsidian, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, and OBS Studio pre-installed. The foundation holds the trademark, funds infrastructure, and aims to support the open-source projects Omarchy depends on. Hansson said it is time to "go all in" on making the Linux desktop mainstream.
- Tobi Lütke: Shopify co-founder and CEO
- Patrick Collison: Stripe co-founder and CEO
- Michael Dell: Dell Technologies founder, chairman, and CEO
- Jack Dorsey: Block co-founder, chairman, and CEO
- Matthew Prince: Cloudflare co-founder, chairman, and CEO
- Brendan Iribe: Oculus co-founder
- Jason Fried: 37signals co-founder
- David Heinemeier Hansson: Ruby on Rails developer
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