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

If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they'd back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees Omarchy, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating…

This article was originally published by The Verge and is republished here under license.

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If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they’d back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees Omarchy, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson’s Linux project. According to Hansson’s blog post announcing the partnership, the tokens will primarily be used to accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs.

Hansson is the Danish entrepreneur known for creating Ruby on Rails and co-founding the company behind Basecamp. But he’s also becoming known for promoting anti-immigration …

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