Power grab / 权力攫取

Sep 11, 2026 — by tante 2026年9月11日 — 作者：tante

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 – thought that turning his setup into a project made sense. Omarchy 本不该引起关注，但遗憾的是，它确实引起了关注，因为它是一场权力的攫取。如果你不知道 Omarchy 是什么，这里有一个简短的总结：RubyOnRails 的创始人、软件公司老板兼百万富翁 David Heinemeier Hansson（DHH），几个月前决定全面转向 Linux。出于他一贯的行事风格，他认为将自己的配置方案变成一个项目很有意义。

Omarchy is just that: A pretty standard Arch Linux distribution with a handful of configuration files, that Heinemeier Hansson (or DHH as he is often called) wrote, or vibed or whatever. There is nothing wrong with this, custom, opinionated special purpose distributions have been part of the Linux culture for a long time and provide a lot of value and experimentation that sometimes even flows back to the original project. In a way Ubuntu Linux is just that to the basis Debian. Omarchy 就是这样：一个相当标准的 Arch Linux 发行版，附带了少量由 Heinemeier Hansson（通常被称为 DHH）编写或随性创作的配置文件。这本身并没有错，定制化的、带有鲜明主观色彩的特殊用途发行版长期以来一直是 Linux 文化的一部分，它们提供了许多价值和实验性成果，有时甚至会回馈给原始项目。从某种意义上说，Ubuntu Linux 之于 Debian 基础也是如此。

There’s also nothing wrong in more opinionated software – quite the opposite. I do think that RubyOnRails and similar frameworks gained traction especially because they do have a clear idea of how they see the respective problem domain. There’s even the statement “There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it” in the Zen of Python. Having a strong point of view is not a bad thing in software or in general. 拥有更多主观色彩的软件也没有错——恰恰相反。我认为 RubyOnRails 和类似的框架之所以能获得成功，正是因为它们对各自的问题领域有着清晰的见解。《Python 之禅》中甚至有一句名言：“应该有一种——最好只有一种——显而易见的方法来解决问题。”在软件开发乃至一般领域，拥有强烈的观点并不是一件坏事。

The problem is the kind of points of view DHH has. I don’t want to go into all the gritty details here, Brennan Kenneth Brown did a great job with their article “Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH“, but here’s the short version. DHH is a racist and a fascist. He recently wrote articles on how there are [Content Warning: massive racism] too many brown people in London these days. In July he wrote an [Content Warning: Racism, anti-romanism] article comparing Roma communities (using a slur for them) to “wolves” that should be “shot”. His X account is also know to be “edgy” in a similar way. 问题在于 DHH 所持有的观点类型。我不想在这里深入探讨所有令人不适的细节，Brennan Kenneth Brown 在其文章《开源中正常化的法西斯主义：给予 DHH 的 1200 万美元》中已经做得很好，但这里有一个简短的版本：DHH 是一个种族主义者和法西斯主义者。他最近撰写文章称，如今伦敦的棕色人种太多了（内容警告：严重的种族主义）。七月，他写了一篇将罗姆人社区（使用了针对他们的侮辱性词汇）比作应该被“射杀”的“狼”的文章（内容警告：种族主义、反罗姆人情绪）。他的 X 账号也以类似的“激进”言论而闻名。

A few days ago he posted sort of a manifesto for his set of config files: There’s even a longer version on the website. Even without a strong background in antifascist literature or history this reads like a fascist creed. About unity and identity. About “holding the line” (against codes of conduct and the rights of marginalized people as the website explains). About how there always needs to be a strong leader who makes the decisions. Given DHH’s other writing this is not a misguided joke, this is how he thinks about the world. 几天前，他为自己的配置文件集发布了一份类似宣言的东西：网站上甚至还有一个更长的版本。即使没有深厚的反法西斯文献或历史背景，读起来也像是一份法西斯信条。它谈论团结和身份，谈论“坚守阵线”（正如网站所解释的，这是为了反对行为准则和边缘群体的权利），谈论总是需要一个强有力的领导者来做决定。鉴于 DHH 的其他文章，这并非一个被误解的玩笑，这就是他看待世界的方式。

I began this text writing “Omarchy should not matter” but I have not explained why it does. It’s surely not about user numbers (it’s a clunky distro aimed at people who love to cosplay hackers). But it is about power. DHH has used his connection to CEO’s of tech corporations and his position as influencer to collect up to now above 18 million dollars of funding for Omarchy. He uses that money not for himself (he has enough of that) but to fund certain pieces of Software he uses in his distribution. 我开头写道“Omarchy 本不该引起关注”，但我还没有解释为什么它确实重要。这当然不是因为用户数量（它是一个笨重的发行版，针对的是那些喜欢扮演黑客的人）。但它关乎权力。DHH 利用他与科技公司 CEO 的关系以及他作为网红的地位，迄今已为 Omarchy 筹集了超过 1800 万美元的资金。他并没有把这些钱用在自己身上（他已经足够富有），而是用来资助他在发行版中使用的某些软件。

Like for example the window manager hyprland whose main developer the Omarchy money now funds. What is “Vaxry” known for outside of a niche window manager? He runs a community based around LGBTQ discrimination and participates in that (see the short summary on Drew DeVault’s “Weird Little Guys of FOSS” list). His bigotry is so consistent that he was banned from participating in the Freedesktop.org community where all the other developers of window managers and the free software desktop stack collaborate. And it was long before DHH funded him. 例如窗口管理器 hyprland，其主要开发者现在正由 Omarchy 的资金资助。“Vaxry”除了那个小众的窗口管理器外还以什么闻名？他运营着一个基于歧视 LGBTQ 群体的社区并参与其中（参见 Drew DeVault 的“FOSS 的怪异小人物”列表中的简短总结）。他的偏执是如此一贯，以至于他被禁止参与 Freedesktop.org 社区，而那里是所有其他窗口管理器和自由软件桌面栈开发者协作的地方。这远在 DHH 资助他之前就已经发生了。

One could see a world where a CEO using his connections to drum up some funding for free software projects would be a good thing. But that’s not the world we live in I am afraid. DHH got 3 million USD from Digital Ocean (a cloud provider) for Omarchy. Basically at the same time where Digital Ocean cancelled their support of Flathub and GNOME that amounted to a value of 50 USD per month. DHH is using his position and his influence to accumulate donations that he then can distribute to projects that align with his fascist worldview and ambitions. 人们可能会认为，一位 CEO 利用自己的人脉为自由软件项目筹集资金是一件好事。但恐怕我们所处的世界并非如此。DHH 从 Digital Ocean（一家云服务提供商）那里为 Omarchy 获得了 300 万美元。而几乎在同一时间，Digital Ocean 取消了对 Flathub 和 GNOME 的支持，其价值仅为每月 50 美元。DHH 正在利用他的地位和影响力积累捐款，然后将其分配给符合他法西斯世界观和野心的项目。

And in a time where many important projects and infrastructures are strapped for cash running just on the goodwill of a handful of people that is increasingly dangerous. Not because its corporate money – a lot of funding for open source comes from corporations, they are after all who are sucking up all the surplus from people’s labor. It’s because this amount of money gives him power. The Omarchy foundation will be where projects in desperate need of funding will be pointed. And will a project focused on human rights and social justice get funding from our fascist overlord? 在许多重要项目和基础设施资金短缺、仅靠少数人的善意维持的时代，这变得越来越危险。这并不是因为这是企业资金——许多开源资金来自企业，毕竟是他们吸走了人们劳动的所有剩余价值。而是因为这笔钱赋予了他权力。Omarchy 基金会将成为那些急需资金的项目被指引去的地方。那么，一个专注于人权和社会正义的项目能从我们的法西斯霸主那里获得资助吗？

What kind of pressure can that exert on projects who have to decide to either die due to lack of funding or kill their code of conduct? An open fascist is building one of the bigger sources of funding for open source fully under his individual control and sucks up a lot of money that otherwise might have gone to liberatory projects. Community projects. Antifascist projects. And that is why Omarchy matters. Sadly. Not because of its technical merit (even though those fascists love to use the “merit” argument to fight human rights) but because of its leader, his connections and his ability to accumulate financial power. 这会对那些必须在“因缺乏资金而消亡”或“废除行为准则”之间做出选择的项目施加什么样的压力？一个公开的法西斯主义者正在建立一个完全由他个人控制的开源资金来源，并吸走了大量本可以流向解放性项目、社区项目和反法西斯项目的资金。这就是 Omarchy 重要的原因。遗憾的是，这并非因为它的技术价值（尽管那些法西斯分子喜欢用“精英管理”的论点来对抗人权），而是因为它的领导者、他的人脉以及他积累金融权力的能力。

Without anyone in that ecosystem saying anything about how that leader operates and talks. And you might know the saying: If there’s a Nazi and 10 folks sitting together at a table and nobody says and does anything? There’s 11 Nazis at that table. Omarchy got a lot of recognition recently. Not only by corporate donors but by Youtubers and other tech influencers who kept praising it and nudged people (who might not know about DHH’s exploits) towards testing it. To become “a hardcore linux user/dev” or whatever other chauvinist argument they made. This makes it dangerous. Running Omarchy means contributing to this dynamic. It means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizin 在这个生态系统中，没有人对这位领导者的行事和言论提出异议。你可能知道那句名言：如果桌边坐着一个纳粹和 10 个人，而没有人采取任何行动，那么桌边就有 11 个纳粹。Omarchy 最近获得了广泛的认可。不仅来自企业捐赠者，还有那些不断称赞它并引导人们（可能不知道 DHH 的所作所为）去测试它的 YouTuber 和其他科技网红。他们打着成为“硬核 Linux 用户/开发者”或其他沙文主义的旗号。这使得它变得危险。运行 Omarchy 意味着助长这种动态。这意味着自愿融入一个法西斯社区。这使……合法化。