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.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    10·
    8 hours ago

    It’s like one of the most leftist technical communities I’ve seen, perhaps more so than Rust

    Rust is on the left? That’s (cough) GNUs to me ;).

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
      81·
      8 hours ago

      Rust is socially vaguely on the left/progressive side, yes. Not so much economically of course, because of all the corporate involvement.

      GNU has some right-wing libertarian culture in it, but is also vaguely leftist and anti-corporate otherwise. I would actually say Rust is slightly more progressive than GNU on social issues, but not by much; and GNU is more anti-corporate, but also not by much.

      I know there some other more certainly leftist FOSS projects out there (like the one we’re chatting on right now 😉) but overall Nix is pretty good on that front.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        How so? I feel like if we’re making jokes based on the language itself it would be more like the “straightest” language because of how strict it’s type system is. It seems like a sort of “there are two genders” sort of thing. Rust seems like the homophobic language.

        (And to be clear, this is just a joke based on the language, not a commentary on the Rust community.)