Omacom Foundation hits $10M as Dropbox's Drew Houston and OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger join as Founding Patrons
Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
The Omacom Foundation has reached $10 million in funding with the addition of two new Founding Patrons: Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox, and Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw. Each contributed $1 million, bringing the total to ten patrons. The foundation aims to make Linux on the desktop a mainstream reality, funding infrastructure, open-source projects, and developers. The announcement highlights Dropbox integration in Omarchy and draws on OpenClaw's growth strategies.
Ten Founding Patrons. Ten million dollars. The prophecy just got another $2 million closer!
- neilalexander
> audacious mission to make Linux on the desktop happen
On the one hand, I'm supportive of people trying to make Linux on the desktop happen. On the other hand, a distribution aimed squarely and solely at developers doesn't seem like it's faithfully achieving that goal whatsoever, given that developers are the one group of people today that don't generally have a problem running Linux on the desktop. I would be far more excited to see this kind of money being poured into building a desktop for everyone else.
- usamoi
For reference: Arch Linux's monthly expenses are about $2,000, most of which goes toward servers. In other words, for a project of Arch's scale, $10 million would be enough to keep it running for 500 years.
- javierhonduco
I am all in seeing more people run Linux and I think this might help the whole ecosystem and other distros long term.
That being said I’m a bit concerned about videos like this https://xcancel.com/thestanduppod/status/2091511392717213707 (really hope this is AI generated) and that so many people are okay to give money to David’s project despite his commentary on various societal topics.
I like many of David’s technical ideas, especially back when I did Ruby, but I’m sad he’s decided to spend time and energy on certain topics. Tech needs more kindness, not less.
- Zambyte
I guess this is what happens when people separate the art from the artist, they get millions in funding.
For the uninformed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454026
- AJRF
> audacious mission to make Linux on the desktop happen
and a arch linux reskin with a tiling window manager + his companies apps pre-installed is the way to do that?
- dijit
Opinions are apparently valuable.
Bit weird, but I support anything that lessens Microsoft domination. Especially with Apple losing their way.
- pprotas
Vibecoded Linuxslop with a Dropbox sponsored product placement. Buy now, only 10 million dollars!
- indy
Best of luck to this project. They seem to be targeting developers who are frustrated with Apple and Microsoft which is probably a large market.
And the opinionated aspect is also a positive since there's often decision paralysis for many people new to Linux.