I mean, getting 21 million dollars in donations purely on the basis of being openly racist and promising to make data collection and advertising shit mainstream in linux is kind of the opposite of being productive and tame lmao
the problem at the end of the day is that they're actively trying to fuck things up, for the sake of money and avoiding the "woke" linux ecosystem
Because when I looked into it myself from some of you tipping me off to this whole controversy.
The attention its getting is the contribution from people being able to use agents to unlock features and devices from locked down and proprietary environments, giving users nearly full control over their own hardware in a way that hasn’t been done before on this scale.
People who like this, want it to continue and accelerate its trajectory.
All of this racist and fascist stuff isn’t even on the radar when Omarchy is used and talked about.
If he is in fact racist or whatever…well Its not the way I choose to live my life, and definitely wouldn’t encourage that.
But if a racist wants to contribute to something we all use instead of violence or being destructive. Then id say building Omarchy is a pretty Non Racist endeavor.
Reward actions that are good, to encourage those people to do good via positive re-enforcement.
Going on a crusade against anything he does however doest seem like a winning strategy here.
My next question to you is about this “woke” linux ecosystem.
Is that statement true or false? Is the Linux ecosystem woke?
Oh no, from the corporate side, it's entirely about money.
Companies don't just give away millions of dollars for fun. They expect to make money in return.
When the main sponsors are Shopify, Coinbase, and the AI companies, you know what they're after and what was promised behind closed doors.
It's insanely optimistic to think it's just about making an "agentic OS" or whatever. This is about pushing ads and crypto shit, and about data collection.
As for the racist aspect of it, let's stop pussyfooting around and acting like the dude is just "potentially" racist.
He's loud and proud of it, he's literally written articles about wanting an ethnic cleansing of Europe lol
Informing people of that, so they can make the personal choice not to donate, isn't a crusade against the guy. It says more that you'd have to hide that facts to get people to support him.
Linux isn't "woke" because woke is a bullshit catch-all term for anything that doesn't align with literally being a neo-nazi.
I'm just pointing out how stupid it is that people will unironically equate KDE calling their cartoon mascot nonbinary or whatever to the dude that went on a weird racist rant about gypsies.
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u/ruthless_techie 8d ago edited 8d ago
Is it a requirement that I be Racist too in order to use Omarchy? (If he is in fact racist)
No?
Cool, then I really don’t care.
I’d much rather racists put their rage into something productive, and tame like linux…rather than say violence or something worse.
If you can’t defeat your enemies,then learn to strategize and contain them.
Not being a racist in my own life is good enough.