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Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Imagine running a trillion dollar company that bundles various open source components into your products, making billions of dollars of profit annually. When one of your users reach out and ask for help, with the product _you_ ship to _your_ customers, you instead refer the user to the open source project. The project which is run by volunteers which you never sponsored with a cent. Who would do something like that?

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Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […]