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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views

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.

One viral blog post declared that 1Password “Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe” because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding of a project from Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password’s Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following:

As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.

However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.

What bigots don't understand, is that when they say to literally kill immigrants, and someone calls them a violent bigot...

The bigots aren't being "attacked" someone is just acknowledging reality.

If bigots were being "personally attacked" for advocating genocide, it would include physical violence, not someone calling them a violent bigot.

And when they conflate the two, someone on the other side is going to physically respond. Because at a certain point the consequence for acknowledging reality and fighting back is the same.

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And this is another example of why we don't advertise these shitty rightwing products.

The guy who gave 300k didn't hear about this distro cuz it worked, he saw articles about how they're nazis, and he supports Nazis.

Complaining about them constantly just gives them free advertisement

[–] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you.

Karimov is definitely telling on himself there. If you think it's "not fair" to ostracize racists, you're a motherfucking racist!

1Password is now outed as a NAZI organization. Period.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can make a multi line quote show up as one quote block by putting 2 spaces at the end of each line. Blank lines need the > plus the spaces.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

The weasel words in that quote, especially in paragraph 2, are blinding. He's definitely the kind of person that complains about people attacking his "free speech".

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The real kicker is that Omarchy is a shit distro, it's just Arch with some very badly written scripts thrown on top. Any of the other Arch derived distros or just plain Arch itself are way better options.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

it’s just Arch with some ~~very badly written~~ vibecoded scripts thrown on top

FTFY.

But that's enough to become popular and get money if the far-right decides to use their controlled media to push your shit.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's Manjaro by an edge lord so shitty his only collaborators are Claude and Grok

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The kicker is the doubling down by the CEO.

It’s one thing to step in a pile of shit; it’s quite another when people tell you, “Hey dude you just stepped in a cow patty”, to reply, “No I didn’t, and even if I did, I actually think it smells quite nice”

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The only other corporate sponsor is 37signals, a company DHH is already involved with, so 1Password is kind of the first company to step in this particular shit. Maybe they can serve as a warning to other companies.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://omarchy.org/patrons/

They seem to have a total of 18 corporate sponsors, if you don't count whatever the fuck "token patrons" are.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The "token patrons" just appeared since I made that comment.

Not counting the token patrons, 1Password and 37signals are the only corporate patrons; most patrons are individuals who happen to have a company listed under their name. The head of a company contributing money isn't quite the same as them having their company contribute money.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Based on this article I read, it seems like all of the companies are linked in some way with Shopify (which DHH is a board member of)

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An unfortunate turn. 1Password has been at the front of the pack in password managers for a long time. There are other options, but 1Password has stood out for features and because “it just works.”

Now I suppose I’ll have to find an alternative. I like Bitwarden’s openness but it isn’t nearly as polished. Maybe this is an opportunity for them or others to rise to the front.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Now I suppose I’ll have to find an alternative.

Good thing is there are only a million to chose from, most of them free and open-source, too.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They just should have contributed to Arch instead of this bunch of script nazi distro