NixOS Foundation Event Sponsorship Policy
discourse.nixos.org
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-...
  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    “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.

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      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 relatedbto 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.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        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.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t have any issue with Foss funding coming from the Military. However, the military should not control the project.

    • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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      7 months ago

      NixCon Europe gets sponsor money from a military company. Taxpayers of the greatest democracy ever had a knee-jerk reaction, because not only they were having such a nice peaceful day before getting reminded that military exists, and they themselves are sponsoring it, while, clearly, in the enlightened world like ours military = bad, “every rifle made is money taken from good causes”. Also, wars are something that only happens in history books anyway, not, say, present-day Europe, amirite? Tons of internal value dissonance, fediverse buzz and free PR later, said military company gets their money back.

      NixCon NA gets sponsor money from the same company, because the value proposition of the previous PR stunt was so sky-high, it’d be negligence to not repeat it. Taxpayers of the greatest democracy ever are reminded once again they don’t have a slightest say say in what they’re funding, so they try their best to not get funded back with their own money and bury their heads back in the sand again. Tons of free PR later, said military company gets their money back.

      Now the foundation publishes a sponsorship policy, the community debates whether it is or is not enough to prevent said military company from diverting funds from the stuff they find so revulsing and towards the stuff they are so excited about. This round of free PR is on the house.

      What’s gonna happen next, we all wonder.

      inb4 “what would you say when the Nix-powered killer drones arrive to your country to start cost-effectively slaying your people”: “it’s 2024, dafuq took you so long”

      • Crazazy [hey hi! :D]@feddit.nl
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        7 months ago

        What are you on about? The open letter was specifically advocating against sponsorships and advertisements of the Military Industrial Complex. I.E. private companies who specifically try to turn a profit from countries going to war. Companies that literally earn money over people’s dead bodies. I think the people that wrote the open letter were very aware that being sponsored by the military was something that is hard to avoid. However there is a clear difference between being sponsored by a military and being sponsored by, like, literal death merchants

        • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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          7 months ago

          I can’t even make it through the maze of your thoughts. Being sponsored by people who make killing utensils = bad, while being sponsored by people who literally kill = good? This is beyond logic.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    How did they determine that this was an issue? Was it the loud minority again?

    Now they have a policy, but it seems like the selection committee has to determine what the “community” wants. Maybe first they should determine who the community is. The people who talk the loudest about nix/nixos? The contributors? The users? Who is “the community”?

    After reading the discussions on discourse.nixos.org, it really does look like a few loud people made the decisions or pushed for change. That community is quite toxic, my goodness.

    Anti Commercial AI thingy

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    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Maybe first they should determine who the community is. The people who talk the loudest about nix/nixos? The contributors? The users? Who is “the community”?

      Maybe it’s written the way it is so nobody knows who’s the community and they can do whatever they please while saying it was in the best interest of the “community”.