"NixOS, the guys who want give the final blow to the development and devops landscape in hopes to later introduce a highly profitable, proprietary and closed technology / repository, decided they couldn't wait for the money anymore so they got a sponsorship from Anduril - an US defense contractor. The community lost their minds at this move because it doesn't fit their righteous, politically correct thus borderline marxisist, moral code and then the guys in charge pressured by the fear of losing said free labor decided to apologize to enact a somewhat vague policy guide. Said document pushes the ideia that the community is all that matters and that all further important decisions will be community driven without actually defining who composes it."
Are these people dumb? It's obvious that a tool meant to have traceable builds amd reproduction of binaries will be used by lots of places related to security, military, etc.
I'm totally out of the loop, but sounds like the same petty pouting that people were screaming when Matrix chat was being used and financed by Police things. Obviously good tools will be used on critical places.
It's like putting the head in the sand and denying that the world exists.
It’s obvious that a tool meant to have traceable builds amd reproduction of binaries will be used by lots of places relatedbto security, military, etc.
Yes.
It’s like putting the head in the sand and denying that the world exists.
We're talking about people who aren't even payed to contribute to the project... you know how it is, not everyone would work in Lockheed Martin.
How did they determine that this was an issue? Was it the loud minority again?
Now they have a policy, but it seems like the selection committee has to determine what the "community" wants. Maybe first they should determine who the community is. The people who talk the loudest about nix/nixos? The contributors? The users? Who is "the community"?
After reading the discussions on discourse.nixos.org, it really does look like a few loud people made the decisions or pushed for change. That community is quite toxic, my goodness.
Maybe first they should determine who the community is. The people who talk the loudest about nix/nixos? The contributors? The users? Who is “the community”?
Maybe it's written the way it is so nobody knows who's the community and they can do whatever they please while saying it was in the best interest of the "community".
Yuck, what a disappointment. I've contributed to Nixpkg, and I never knew about this. As a South Asian, I have nothing but negative opinion towards Palmer Luckey. They're also associated with Peter Thiel's Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX. Red flags, one after another.
In September 2016, Luckey stated he is a libertarian who had supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in past elections.[55][56][57] Since then, he has become a prominent fundraiser for the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
