SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute

The Verge
SpaceXAI joins the Omacom Foundation and donates $1.5 million in Grok tokens to Omarchy, the Linux distro led by David Heinemeier Hansson.

Summary

SpaceXAI announced it is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and will donate $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson's project. According to Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily be used to accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. Hansson, the Danish entrepreneur known for creating Ruby on Rails and co-founding Basecamp, has also drawn controversy for promoting anti-immigration policies through racist blog posts, including a July post comparing immigrants to wolves. Companies such as 1Password and Cloudflare have previously faced criticism for contributing to Omarchy; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince defended his company by saying he didn't think it was his job to "police different people's political beliefs."

(Source:The Verge)