SpaceXAI 向争议 Linux 发行版 Omarchy 捐赠 150 万美元 Grok token
SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
- 1SpaceXAI 以创始企业赞助人身份加入 Omacom 基金会，向 Omarchy 项目捐赠价值 150 万美元的 Grok token
- 2据 Hansson 博客文章，这批 token 将主要用于加速开发、审查代码和修补 bug
- 3Hansson 因以种族主义博文推广反移民政策引发争议，7 月曾将移民比作失控的狼
- 41Password 与 Cloudflare 此前因支持 Omarchy 陷入争议，Cloudflare CEO 称评判他人政治信念并非其职责
这既是 AI 公司用算力换取开源生态影响力的动作，也把赞助企业与项目主导者的言论争议捆绑在一起。
- 影响：资助个人主导的开源项目，企业品牌会与主导者的言论争议绑定，1Password 和 Cloudflare 的先例显示这类风波可能反复发酵；算力和 token 捐赠同时成为 AI 厂商进入开发者生态的途径。
- 参考：可考虑在向个人主导的开源项目投入资金或算力前，核查项目主导者公开言论与自身品牌立场的冲突点；已有资助的企业值得提前准备对外回应口径，参照 Cloudflare 的表态明确自身边界。
- 依据：捐赠金额与用途转述自 Hansson 博客，争议言论引自其 7 月博文原文，Cloudflare CEO 表态出自 Decoder 播客访谈。
Terrence O'Brien
is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.
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 policies through racist blog posts. In a July post, he compared immigrants to wolves and said, “When wolves get out of control, you shoot them.”
1Password previously found itself in hot water for contributing to Omarchy, as has Cloudflare. When asked about its contributions to Hansson’s Linux distro by Nilay Patel on the Decoder podcast, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said he didn’t think it was his job to “police different people’s political beliefs.”
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