source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/
DigitalOcean joins as a Founding Corporate Patron with $3 million
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What an incredible vote of confidence in the beautiful, fun & agentic OS we’re building.
Even politics aside, I don't understand why all these companies are donating to Omarchy. It doesn't actually offer anything worth thinking about.... which makes me think it's about the politics.
It has to be some sort of money laundering scheme
Dude says xenophobic and racist shit, thats all they need to hear in 2026.
On a real note though this looks like corporations trying to cash in on the up and coming Linux rise, but this explicitly does not work like that
It's in the blurb. Pretty sure when he says "agentic OS", he wants it to be the default OS for consumer AI crap. All you have to do these days is just hint at AI and companies will fall over themselves to throw money at you.
DO have been chugging the AI koolaid for a long while now, so this tracks.
I think I need to start a distro at this point. See if I can get a bunch of enterprise donators... Though I suspect I'm not white supremacist enough for them. But I AM a white male so if I just shut the fuck up maybe they'll give me money anyways hoping that perhaps I share their views?
you can do it way more easy than DHH did. Just build a NixOS configuration and you're done. hell NixOS will even build it to an ISO for you. you can literally have it do all the things Omarchy does for a fraction of the size.
Oh I specifically meant I'd have to do an AI one to get all that corporate funding. I know how easy it would be to create "yet another distro". But I figured I'd actually go a bit further and potentially do a little more than Omarchy for better AI integration, while still allowing the user to 1) not opt into AI in the first place, 2) choose a level of configuration depth that fits them if they DO opt in. I've got some ideas, but they're still in my head (for a long time now) so I need to actually write it all down. Prefer not laying it out here because I don't want DHH's lackeys to find this somehow and steal my ideas, but of course if I deem them achievable in the first place, the things I want to build most would be distro agnostic and GPL'd because there's more benefit in having others use it and extend it than in locking it to one paltry distro that has, at the moment of writing, zero users because it doesn't exist yet.
A. many of the donors are friends of DHH B. the entire "distro" is full to the brim with AI. it's built completely via AI. so these people are looking for an ROI on it. they want this to be THE consumer AI OS. and I guarantee you it won't be free for much longer.