1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3
Probably because Omarchy is preinstalling 1password.
Isn’t that a commercial product for which great open source alternatives exist? What kind of distro does that?
And don’t they also preinstall Basecamp, DHH’s own company’s product?
Maybe it’s all just a vehicle for product placement.
One that does not care at all about having maintaining a sane and open ecosystem. Where there’s money to make, they will prey down quickly. Now that people are somewhat convinced that Linux based systems can work and actually attract the general public, a whole new market is ripe for reaping.