Dear community, First, we want to acknowledge the feedback from the community. We recognize that many of you invested countless hours in the project and deeply care about its state and direction. After countless hours of deliberation, both from the community and internally, we have come to the following conclusions, which we believe are a good balance between respecting various community values and keeping the relationship with companies strong. While we generally support the principle of non-...
“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.
“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.”
There, fixed for you.
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.
Yes.
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.