@djsumdog@djsumdog.com this is really just what happens with shilled out meme distros
I use it right now for nix-shell and to build nix containers. The trouble is the documentation is garbage and the nix expression language is dogshit. But conceptually, it solves SO MANY PROBLEMS with Linux package state.
I know little about the current drama. It seems like the Nix community doesn't understand things cost money. They don't want a defense contractor sponsorship for an event, but probably wouldn't care if an abortion clinic sponsored an event ... like, zero self-awareness.
@djsumdog @iska There is a GitHub repository explaining the drama.
https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained
Also, sponsorships in general seem to be controversial in the FOSS community because unlike regular donations, strings can be attached and they can change the direction of the project if the project is relying on said sponsorships. What makes Anduril unique is that their technology is used to enforce the US-Mexico border, so naturally you are going to have some open-borders leftists screeching about it.
@djsumdog @iska
>Mixing your political beliefs with what your want to support in the FOSS world should be shamed as being morally void.
Well there are some who view FOSS as an anti-capitalist movement, even though Stallman and the FSF have said the contrary (I'd even argue that FOSS is even more capitalist than proprietary software because it gives everyone the right to profit off of it). So, naturally you have a bunch of far-leftists who just use the FOSS movement to push their socialist agenda, and they view that anyone with opposing beliefs has no place in the FOSS community, and that's how you get these Drew DeVault and Aral Balkan types.
oh I didn't know about the border wall thing ... well that's ultimate peak autistic political retardation right there.
I'm not entirely behind the "strings attached" by donation thing. I guess there are ideas and expectations, but at the same time, Intel/IBM and hell even Microsoft make big code contributions to several kernel projects.
Mixing your political beliefs with what your want to support in the FOSS world should be shamed as being morally void. Who cares if the person who contributes to your project likes killing babies, is against killing babies, thinks borders mean something, loves Biden, thinks Biden is a potatophile, etc. etc. The only underlying belief should be that of making good open software for all people to use. Code of conducts are open source cancer. Brendan Eich did nothing wrong*!!!!
* At Mozilla. He still created Javascript, which is a sin punishable by the eternal flames of hell.