I really hope the nix community can recover from this infiltration of nut jobs and their nonsense, like we have in the Ruby world. There are so many good ideas over there that deserve so much better.
The majority of the NixOS Moderation Team (5 of 7 of them) has just mass resigned — and are threatening to leave the project entirely if their demands are not met.
This appears to be in response to the NixOS Steering Committee (the elected, governing body) attempting to make “moderation fair and respectable” and “address perceptions of political bias” in NixOS moderation.
The NixOS Moderation team came to public attention, last year, when they conducted a mass “Purge” of Conservatives and other non-Leftists from the project (people who were referred to, by the Moderation Team, as “Nazis”).
The resigned NixOS Moderation team members are demanding that the entire NixOS elected Steering Committee resign immediately, new elections be held, and that the NixOS constitution be modified to make the elected Steering Committee accountable to the non-elected Moderation Team.
discourse.nixos.org/t/a-stat…
From what I understand, Anduril are big users of nix. Maybe @PalmerLuckey can help turn the ship around. It's amazing what a stabilizing force it can be to have the companies with a commercial interest in using OSS help support good governance.
Involvement of @anduriltech was a major escalating factor as many of these people are also staunchly anti-MIC.
Part of the reason why the temperature was turned up so much on me was that I was (and still am) employed at Anduril. And mastodon.delroth.net/@delrot… painted me as a Peter Thiel shill.
They chose to exclude Anduril rather accept sponsorship money (arguing this was advertisement and endorsement of NixOS with Anduril). And then earlier this year, the Steering committee made the decision to disallow Anduril from even posting open Job listings. discourse.nixos.org/t/anduri…
That's retarded. Anduril should have been CELEBRATED for supporting nix! And I think it still could be, if @PalmerLuckey and others with a stake in this technology decides to get these nut jobs out. I know he will have the support of @mitchellh and @tobi too (my nix pill pals!).
I posed this question to get a grass roots representation of "the community": discourse.nixos.org/t/should…
It seemed to be mixed, but only a few seemed to be adamant that it was absolutely unacceptable. However, they were also the loudest and most repeat participant to the conversations.
My personal opinion is if the foundation was firm, most people would eventually reconcile the cognitive dissonance. "We aren't happy about it, but Nix is most important" type of thinking.
Instead a bunch of reputation assassination occurred toward Anduril, which then transitioned into undue malice and demonization occurring.
If @PalmerLuckey is interested in getting involved, I'll be happy to help. It's a big ask given the terrain.
The bias goes way beyond online spats. The good news is that Anduril will keep using Nix to build ever more powerful weapons for American dominance regardless of what the fringe "community" people say.
NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor only days before the convention for being "associated with the military", further demanding that Anduril employees in attendance not mention or market their affiliation with Anduril.
This is an outrageous example of censorship in open-source software. Our status as a defense company was not sprung on them. Anduril has been a strong member of the NixOS community for 5+ years, sponsoring efforts like the Nix Documentation Project and CUDA support while open-sourcing important developments of our own like support for various Nvidia devices. This opaque pledge to "do better" clearly violates the NixOS code of conduct.
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