1Password Defends $300,000 Omacom Donation as Staff Backlash Spreads
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Updated · Slashdot · Sep 2
1Password Defends $300,000 Omacom Donation as Staff Backlash Spreads
2 articles · Updated · Slashdot · Sep 2
Summary
Internal Slack messages show 1Password leaders responding to employee anger over the company's $300,000 pledge to the Omacom Foundation, which backs DHH-linked Linux distro Omarchy.
CEO David Faugno said 1Password does not endorse DHH's "hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views," but argued Omarchy's growth among customers made the donation mission-driven rather than ideological.
Faugno told staff Omarchy is now the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users, while stressing the money went to a foundation, not directly to DHH.
Cofounder Roustem Karimov took a sharper line, telling employees people hold different views and warning against ostracizing colleagues over DHH, whose public comments have triggered customer calls to switch password managers.