Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics

In more than 30 years in the Linux business, we've never seen a distro win so much backing so fast – or make so many enemies. As we write, it's less than three weeks since we wrote about David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Arch-based Linux. Much of Omarchy's success is due to the visibility of Hansson – better known as DHH – the man behind both the distro and the Ruby on Rails web framework. He has attracted considerable attention for posts critical of immigration, including As I remember London and Wolves, sheep, and gypsies. When we started work on that story, the organization established to fund and oversee Omarchy, the Omacom Foundation, claimed $8 million in backing. By the time we finished writing the story the next day, it was...

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