Brian Cartmell and American Cloud join as open patronage doubles!

The Omacom Foundation keeps growing! Since DigitalOcean joined as a Founding Corporate Patron last week, we’ve welcomed a new Distinguished Patron, opened a new tier for companies on their way up, and watched open patronage double.

First, I’m delighted to welcome Brian Cartmell as a Distinguished Patron with a $100,000 contribution. Brian has been building on the internet since the nineties, and he’s backing this mission for exactly the right reasons. Here’s how he puts it:

Your computer should answer to you. With a growing push toward closed platforms and restricted AI models, I’m supporting the Omacom Foundation because Omarchy is helping keep the future open, hackable, and under the user’s control.

Then there’s American Cloud, joining with $25,088 for the year. Aron Wagner and his team wanted a patronage sized between open patronage and the Distinguished Corporate tier, so we made one! There’s now a 25K tier under All Patrons for companies that want to put real money behind beautiful, fun & agentic Linux without waiting until they’re big enough for the $100,000 a year commitment. And $25,088 is a multiple of 256, naturally, to keep with the theme. American Cloud has also offered up compute, which we may well take them up on for redundancy.

And since we last counted, open patronage has doubled! We’ve now received more than $120,000 from 826 patrons through open patronage. That includes an $8,192 pledge from Zeno, who wired it directly when the donation form wouldn’t take his card. Ten days ago, it was roughly $60,000 from nearly 500 donors. Every contribution adds to what we can do together, and together it adds up fast.

Money from individuals who want their computer to answer to them. Money from companies growing on Linux. Money from hundreds of people who just want the prophecy fulfilled. This is how we keep going!

Thank you to Brian, American Cloud, and everyone who’s become a patron. If you’d like to join them, write david@omarchy.org for founding and distinguished patronage, and donate directly to the open patronage.