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ryper@ryper@lemmy.ca

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

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: archive.is/osNh3

www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy
abc@abc@suppo.fi

Replying to @⁨sunnyjim@lemmy.zip⁩

Configuring a tiling wm is beyond the skills of most people, and of the people who would be capable of configuring it, only a small minority would bother. So there’s some value in bundling all of that into a coherent package.

Things don’t have to be groundbreaking for someone to do it the first time.

Edited ⁨⁨Sep⁩ ⁨4⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨11:04⁩⁩en