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DigitalOcean Pledges $3M to Omarchy as Its 'Agentic Cloud' Weeks After Cancelling a $50/Month GNOME Sponsorship
DigitalOcean joined the Omacom Foundation as a founding corporate patron on September 10, committing $1M a year for three years to the Arch-based Omarchy distribution, plus tokens and compute credits, which DHH says brings foundation pledges to about $18.5M. The infrastructure Omarchy uses to build packages, review code with agents and run tests already runs on DigitalOcean. The contrast driving a front-page Ask HN thread on September 13 is that DigitalOcean cancelled its GNOME and Flathub sponsorships, worth roughly $50 a month, in the same period. Infrastructure vendors are now buying developer distribution through agent-workflow sponsorships rather than through foundation membership.
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