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
Did anyone actually read this post and the links? None of these links confirm what this post claims
This is actually a very legitimate worry
I’m guessing we should divide FOSS into political camps? We can’t code in open source projects with contributors that have political positions we oppose?
This seems to be the trend I’m seeing.
They are community and have the power to move their contributions elsewhere. A fork was already started but there wasn’t much traction https://auxolotl.org/ back when. Maybe it’s time for more people to actually switch.
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.
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 what I think. Fascism and MAGA ideas are increasingly being introduced into FOSS projects through the leaders of those projects. The biggest example is Brave Software with Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel contributing money to Brave Software. Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.
Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.
Sorry, but your description doesn’t paint an accurate-enough picture of this guy.
Peter Thiel is a lunatic who believes that AI regulation is the anti-christ, and he’s currently one of the most powerful people in the world.
I doubt he actually believes that. He’s just using that rhetoric to get Christians on board.
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.
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!
Using democracy to gain power and then eliminating dissent and democracy itself was already used in the last century by German politicians. ;)
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.
“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.
That… Makes so much more sense now. Thanks!
A bar that allows nazis appeals to nazis, leading to more nazis, until the bar is known as a bar for nazis.
