Omarchy Is a Power Grab

s08148692

This author seems a tad obsessed. 15 times they threw the word fascist around. DHH certainly has some controversial views that many (including myself) find distasteful, but the idea that he will use his funding to suppress and take funding from politically opposed founders and push fascism is nothing short of conspiracy theory. Use Omarchy if you like the OS. Don't use it if you don't like it. A political analysis of the founders and leadership behind every product you use must be an exhausting way to live your life

gwt4life

DHH is not a fascist, he is an attention seeker with a reality distortion field. An RDF is of no use unless you say edgy things. The author is being played by writing an article like this. Its exactly what DHH wants.

bakies

This is a bunch of drama that's so easy to ignore. Publishing this article is just drawing more people to Omarchy. I don't know anything about it and don't care for yet-another-linux-distro-that-does-whatever. It'll eventually settle outside the big three like all other distros.

armchairhacker

Even ignoring politics, I’m sure there are more impactful ways to spend $18 million. Many OSS projects are underfunded, why not give some of that to e.g. Bevy ( https://bevy.org/sponsorship-pledge/ ), Unsloth ( https://github.com/sponsors/unslothai ), or better, many small grants to many small projects?

treetalker

Team ohm-ARCH-ee vs Team ooh-MAH-chee

mikhael28

Would be awesome if people stopped throwing around the word fascist like it's nothing. I wonder if the person who wrote this had any family members who ran into real fascists during the 20th century. While DHH might be a POS at times, that doesn't make him a fascist.

dlivingston

Here's DHH directly addressing these claims of fascism / xenophobia / etc. Worth a listen. https://youtu.be/GYx4OBbswTw

froggertoaster

I'm hoping that this is getting upvotes for the obvious and disingenuous use of the term "fascist", which apparently has lost all meaning.

gaigalas

> There’s also nothing wrong in more opinionated software Except the fact that it's a breeding chamber for those "unity and identity" types of people/ideologies/projects? Embracing diversity is messy , and it's also a blessing. There should be lots of ways of doing the same thing, etc.

ganelonhb

I have a really cool idea if you’re the type to complain about software you don’t like. You can try this thing called “continuing to not run that software that upsets you.” I do it all the time! It’s quite liberating to not care about nor try to control others!

anklp

People mention the politics, but this is mainly Ruby (and RoR) whoring out itself to AI because Shopify wants their merchants to vibe code websites. Ruby tries to counteract the declining popularity and in my opinion makes it worse. I was on the point of switching to Ruby before I found out about all this AI boosting. Digital Ocean contributed? Typical nihilist corporation (2021 pandering to Biden): https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/diversity-equity-inclusion...

gos9

Blogger has thoughts, world continues to spin.

guestbest

If it was only based on Slackware would i consider it.

kazinator

I don't see anything racist in the manifesto whatsoever; the turn foff for me here "Welcome the Agents".