Short Summary of the Community Drama of the Linux Distribution “NixOS”, so that you can get the big picture and form your own opinion with the provided sources.
Clarification of the “Steering Comittee” as Project Leadership
Moderation Team resigns in Protest
- Resignation Post, with examples of interference: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828
- Conflict due different interests:
- the Moderation Team desires being independent. otherwise, they can’t moderate the behavior of people in positions of power.
- the Moderation Team is currently accountable to the Steering Comittee: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-the-moderation-team/69828/6
Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.
- Steering Committee works for Military Company https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sc-member-tomberek-works-for-anduril/68971
- People in the community feel uncomfortable with that, since the US and its military are heading towards facsism: https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115275676459535171
- The Steering Committee made a public Post about that, explaining the Situation: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/statement-on-a-steering-committee-member-joining-anduril/69007
OC text by @[email protected]
Thousands of FOSS projects that have nothing to do with Nazis but a couple that have some dickheads on them and now FOSS has a Nazi problem. I don’t think that’s a reasonable conclusion except in pearl-clutching minds.
And I’m not your buddy, pal.
Brave is one of the best-known FOSS projects in the world of web browsers, and its leaders are MAGA.
Linux is absolutely the best known FOSS project and it’s leaders are not Nazis.
Checkmate atheists.
My message does not say that FOSS project leaders are MAGA, but rather that there are increasingly more FOSS projects with MAGA leaders, such as Brave.
Their leaders align with the democratic plurality of the US?
WTF, I hate democracy now!
Maga is a minority of US citizens. Just remeber Trump barely won half of the half of eligble voters that actually voted.
That said. Standing on priciples sometimes means fully opposing what the majority of people sometimes. Chattel slavery to child brides to the trail of tears were all at different points the “popular” (dominate and effectivly unopposed) positions at different times. They were also sick and twisted autrasties that stain the nations history with blood and traumas of innocents.
Using democracy to gain power and then eliminating dissent and democracy itself was already used in the last century by German politicians. ;)