Yep.
They seem to have a total of 18 corporate sponsors, if you don't count whatever the fuck "token patrons" are.
Configuring a tiling wm is beyond the skills of most people, and of the people who would be capable of configuring it, only a small minority would bother. So there's some value in bundling all of that into a coherent package.
Things don't have to be groundbreaking for someone to do it the first time.
Bundling of their stuff into the base installation, I suppose. With simple math, if 1password gets like 33k subscription payments, that's about $100 000 already.
Omarchy got perhaps a 100K installations just last month.
They're buying customers and visibility with a sum that's probably pocket change for them.
The basis is the japanese word "omakase".
Bullshit pro-Russian source. That doesn't mean they're automatically lying, just providing some context here.
Example: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/09/30/ukraine-should-rush-back-to-istanbul/
Block (possibly report if you care that much) and move on.
The pattern is this: First, they find out who to hate. Second, they find reasons to hate. Third, if they cannot find any reasons, they make them up.
That's the thing about real world. People don't ask for permission to do things.
If you think you can do better, who's stopping you?
What tankies actually think:
Wait, why the fuck should anyone care what tankies think?