Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 mi…
additionally, i’m not saying that opposing racism or bigotry is immature. I’m saying throwing out a successful open-source project because the owner is allegedly a racist/bigot (i admittedly know nothing or care to know anything about this DHH character) is counterproductive. Is the code racist/bigoted? If I make something using Omarchy as my OS, am I racist/bigoted? It sounds like that’s what you’re implying…
First of all, the premise that this “open-source” project is innovative or there’s something other than Archlinux + Dotfiles + Bundled software in the ISO is flawed. There’s hardly anything inside the OS that other projects cannot achieve or haven’t. If you want to call something innovative, Nix and NixOS fit the bill perfectly, CachyOS also fits the description. Omarchy doesn’t. It’s like saying Endeavour OS is doing something innovative.
When someone who is not intent on supporting bigots looks at EndeavourOS and Omarchy, They will choose EndeavourOS 100% of the time.
Success for you might be to get a million dollars and not question the origins of said money or the motives. Other people may have stricter standards for success than that.
I don’t believe I’ve used the word “innovative” anywhere.
You’re forgetting the very important aspect of actually getting users to use your product. Look, I hate marketing. I refuse to do it myself over channels like instagram, twitter/x, etc. Sadly, that’s what works for the vast majority of people.
The reality is that right now people are fucked in the head with conditioned patterns. That means you, that means me. There’s a lot of dissonance going on in the world of people coming into hard terms with reality, and one of those realities is that dumbasses have a lot of money and we’re still allowing that money to have power over us.
There’s only so much time in the day and we have to do things intelligently in the ways that they work. Sometimes that is going to involve radical acceptance that we are also part of the problem and that changing our own habits is really the most control we have. Is there fascism around? Yeah, probably. Evil is a part of the world and it will be there tomorrow in another form.
Re: EndeavourOS - no. they wont. I don’t even know what EndeavourOS and I’m 1,000,000x more tech savvy then 99% of the people I know. Just like there’s a 1% of people who own all the wealth, there’s a 1% of people who have technical knowledge and the rest are relatively illiterate. You guys are in an echo box and I’m sorry but no one gives a shit because they don’t understand even what a config file is. They might understand that Microsoft and Apple are spying on them, Linux is something that is the new fad. Omarchy looks cool.
additionally, i’m not saying that opposing racism or bigotry is immature. I’m saying throwing out a successful open-source project because the owner is allegedly a racist/bigot (i admittedly know nothing or care to know anything about this DHH character) is counterproductive. Is the code racist/bigoted? If I make something using Omarchy as my OS, am I racist/bigoted? It sounds like that’s what you’re implying…
First of all, the premise that this “open-source” project is innovative or there’s something other than Archlinux + Dotfiles + Bundled software in the ISO is flawed. There’s hardly anything inside the OS that other projects cannot achieve or haven’t. If you want to call something innovative, Nix and NixOS fit the bill perfectly, CachyOS also fits the description. Omarchy doesn’t. It’s like saying Endeavour OS is doing something innovative.
When someone who is not intent on supporting bigots looks at EndeavourOS and Omarchy, They will choose EndeavourOS 100% of the time.
Success for you might be to get a million dollars and not question the origins of said money or the motives. Other people may have stricter standards for success than that.
I don’t believe I’ve used the word “innovative” anywhere.
You’re forgetting the very important aspect of actually getting users to use your product. Look, I hate marketing. I refuse to do it myself over channels like instagram, twitter/x, etc. Sadly, that’s what works for the vast majority of people.
The reality is that right now people are fucked in the head with conditioned patterns. That means you, that means me. There’s a lot of dissonance going on in the world of people coming into hard terms with reality, and one of those realities is that dumbasses have a lot of money and we’re still allowing that money to have power over us.
There’s only so much time in the day and we have to do things intelligently in the ways that they work. Sometimes that is going to involve radical acceptance that we are also part of the problem and that changing our own habits is really the most control we have. Is there fascism around? Yeah, probably. Evil is a part of the world and it will be there tomorrow in another form.
Re: EndeavourOS - no. they wont. I don’t even know what EndeavourOS and I’m 1,000,000x more tech savvy then 99% of the people I know. Just like there’s a 1% of people who own all the wealth, there’s a 1% of people who have technical knowledge and the rest are relatively illiterate. You guys are in an echo box and I’m sorry but no one gives a shit because they don’t understand even what a config file is. They might understand that Microsoft and Apple are spying on them, Linux is something that is the new fad. Omarchy looks cool.