Its the monetizing part that makes me think its not Omarchy - they have no monetizing things.

▲ ADevWithAnIdea 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

They're referring to Omarchy, it's very clear on their IRC

I saw that's there is an Omarchy for Mac "team" consisting mostly of one guy who is active on Twitter (and quickly amassed many followers) and seems to have no prior experience of working on Linux kernel. They do not mention Asahi anywhere which isn't surprising to me given the reputation of DHH and Omarchy. This hijacking of open source by bad faith actors is very concerning.

	▲	jasonvorhe 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nonsense. > Omarchy on... > Apple M1/M2 chips# > Asahi Alarm is a version of Arch for Apple M1/M2 computers built on top of Asahi Linux. You can get Omarchy running on top of that with some effort. See the user-driven guide. Source: https://omarchy.org/manual/omarchy-on/ > [...] You finished what Asahi started, and you’re already pushing on to M4, M5, and M6. Thank you! Source: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/11/marcelo-alcantara-and-birk-...
	▲	saagarjha a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It’s a little more complicated than this (but not better IMO)
	▲	cromka 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, on their GitHub for example, in their m1n1 fork they tend to refer to "upstream" as... the main branch of their fork. Very interesting choice of words, but again, all their work including all issues and docs are LLM-generated.

▲ petterroea 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Omarchy has gotten somewhat of a reputation for getting a lot of sponsorship money from commercial actors. If by monetize you mean "Get people to pay us" omarchy are definitely monetizing. Not much different to Asahi themselves of course, but is it right/moral to fork another active projects code and use it in order to gain your own patrons? I don't hold the answers. But no they aren't selling anything.

edit: worth noting this example, where DigitalOcean started cutting OSS support only to pledge millions of dollars to Omarchy. No wonder people consider the project a leech to the OSS community, but also consider correlation != causation: https://itsfoss.com/news/digitalocean-open-source-credits-en...

▲ SXX 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

DigitalOcean obviously cut their OSS support because they gave it as credits for a year and it required constant human review and interaction.

At the same time it was mostly to small OSS projects that dont have formal non-profits so no tax exemption benefits to DigitalOcean.

▲ petterroea 2 days ago | parent [-]

It is worth noting the same article's discussion of nodejs reads as "DO shut down a program, possibly planning a v2 of said program, but failed to communicate it to its dependents and didn't realize until they started planning to leave". Or they were just fighting the fires caused by a github issue named "Transition off of Digital Ocean" caused \o/

▲ SXX 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Project I was involved in was one of dependants and there was nothing in email mentioning any "v2":

   Hello,
   
   We’re reaching out to share an important update regarding the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program.
   
   DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or approving credit renewals, extensions, or additional credit requests.
   
   If you currently have Open Source Credits that have already been granted, those credits will continue to be honored according to their existing terms and conditions. No action is required for your existing credit allocation.
   
   Additionally, the dedicated inbox for the Open Source Credits Program will stop being monitored as part of this transition. For any further questions or assistance, please submit your inquiries through our standard support channel: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support
   
   We appreciate your participation in the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program and the work you do to support the open source community. Thank you for being part of the program.
   
   Best wishes,
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▲ wannabe44 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. But how is GPL going to prevent that?

▲ burgerone 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They do have large entities donating to them