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> 15 millions dollars that is supposed to "support the linux desktop", but right now is mostly funding its own distro. There is no general destination to suppo
by machomaster 19d ago
> 15 millions dollars that is supposed to "support the linux desktop", but right now is mostly funding its own distro.
There is no general destination to support Linux Desktop. Linux Foundation is not that, in addition to having more money than they need, and spending less than 5% of their budget on actual kernel.
The only way to support Linux and its desktop is to support individual project. Be they separate or part of some distro. That's the beauty of Linux and open-source - all the features and efforts are dynamically leaking elsewhere in the ecosystem.
DHH never promised to support outside projects. Omarchy Foundation is supposed to support Linux via developing Omarchy, putting all the money there, not by having a tax-evation foundation with high-paid executives, distributing a tiny percentage of the budget to some general unmeasurable cause.
Hence why DHH supports Hyprland and not Niri. He said that directly.