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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] 160 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    to fix issues and errors

    and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca's comment

    I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they're good at keeping it "In The Family" so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It's the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago*

    Bundling of their stuff into the base installation, I suppose. With simple math, if 1password gets like 33k subscription payments, that's about $100 000 already.

    Omarchy got perhaps a 100K installations just last month.

    They're buying customers and visibility with a sum that's probably pocket change for them.

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