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

Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.

OC text by @clumsy_cat@beehaw.org

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago

This is actually a very legitimate worry

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Did anyone actually read this post and the links? None of these links confirm what this post claims

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250925223417/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    That's a broad brush you're painting with there, sport.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Brave is one of the best-known FOSS projects in the world of web browsers, and its leaders are MAGA.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Their leaders align with the democratic plurality of the US?

    WTF, I hate democracy now!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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