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 @clumsy_cat@beehaw.org
This is actually a very legitimate worry
I’m gonna re iterate what I said about the FOSS community the first time I came across this.
As a whole FOSS has a nazi bar problem and it needs to be addressed.
That’s a broad brush you’re painting with there, sport.
Let’s pretend that people who raise concerns about large contributors being fascists aren’t told to shut up because they “do good work”.
Btw I’m not your sport buddy.
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.
“Nazi bar”? Like a limbo stick? Cba you explain what you mean? Honestly curious.
I appreciate honest curiosity.
This is where I got the term from and that and the tolerance paradox are basically how I interact with Nazis, racists, ect.
A bar that allows nazis appeals to nazis, leading to more nazis, until the bar is known as a bar for nazis.
