// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, has put a number on how serious he is about desktop Linux. That number is eight million dollars, and it's going into a brand new nonprofit called the Omacom Foundation.
DHH is incorporating the foundation now, set to cover the Omarchy trademark, its infrastructure and hosting, promotion for the project, and funding for the open source developers whose work it depends on.
He calls it a "moral obligation," not just to get Omarchy into more people's hands but to change how they use a computer in the first place.
Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Patrick Collison of Stripe, Tobi Lütke of Shopify, Jack Dorsey of Block, Matthew Prince of Cloudflare, Jason Fried of 37signals, Brendan Iribe of Sesame, and DHH himself each put in a million dollars to make it happen.
People already like using Omarchy, DHH says, and he wants this money to last as long as possible instead of getting spent all at once while also making the most out of it.
Hyprland is the first project outside Omarchy to see any of this money. Omacom is extending an exclusive sponsorship to support Vaxry, the developer behind the Wayland compositor Omarchy runs on.
Under this, he is locked into an agreement for three years, with the possibility of extending for two more years.
This way Vaxry gets to work on Hyprland full time without needing to think about the money. As part of this arrangement, the €5/month Hyprperks subscription service will be discontinued, and everything offered under it will be provided for free.
DHH also joked about finding Vaxry a pookie, noting that:
We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service). We've got a few other sponsorships we'll be announcing soon! https://t.co/OnzKyx1W8e