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It has already been 11 days yet I don’t see nothing of media coverage as they have promised to initiate, were the goals met or is it simply to early to say?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net
 
 

The Nix saga continues. Now it's reaching a boiling point.

From this evidence, it can be observed that Eelco and Graham strangely strongly want the Nix project to be able to be a vehicle for advertising Anduril.

I don't know, If I didn't want my entire community to go against me I would just not advertise the Military Industrial Complex.

The signatories of this document intend to switch to, as well as actively support, any fork efforts for the entire Nix community unless something significantly changes soon. If there is no satisfying progress in action on Eelco’s resignation from positions of authority in all parts of the Nix project by Wednesday May 1, 2024, we intend to ensure this letter reaches a wide audience.

First Stallman, then Vaxry, now Eelco (and even more). The FOSS space is going to get rid of all cisgender white techbros. Down with cis! meow-knife-trans

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this thread fucking sucks for me to have to post, but the linked open letter is an important read. none of the systemic issues pertaining to marginalized folks and commercial/military-industrial interests in the Nix community I’ve previously written about on TechTakes have been solved; in fact, they’ve gotten worse to the point where the Nix community moderation team is essentially in the process of quitting. that’s the beginning to an awful end for a project I like a whole lot.

even if you don’t give a fuck about Nix, the open letter is an important read because the toxicity, conflicts of interest, and underhanded tactics detailed in it are incredibly common in the open source space. this letter could have been written about a multitude of infamously toxic open source projects; Nix is lucky that it has marginalized folks involved who care about the direction of the project and want to make things better, but those people are actively leaving, after being burnt out by the toxic people and structures entrenched in Nix’s community. that’s a fucking tragedy.

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