Political extremists taking over a successful Open Source project -- from the inside -- and imposing wild, discriminatory, political policies
NixOS commits "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
03.07.2024
The Linux project descends into chaos as political activists enforce extremist politics.
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"I must express my deep disappointment and disbelief at the accusation of excluding people from minority or marginalized backgrounds," stated the Nix founder in a blog post on April 26th.
The following day, the Nix Foundation Board denounced the words of the Nix founder.
Then -- and this seriously happened -- the Nix Foundation Board began drafting an abdication letter on behalf of the NixOS founder.
This is real. Eelco Dolstra, the founder of Nix, had an abdication letter written for him and was pressured into signing it. One of the drafters made a note to the Nix Founder that he must add himself as a signatory of the letter "for it to appear amicable".
The abdication letter was posted, with the Nix Founder as a signatory, on April 30th. (
The NixOS Saga is Not Finished
This, truly, is a crazy tale.
Political extremists taking over a successful Open Source project -- from the inside -- and imposing wild, discriminatory, political policies. Followed by the vilification -- and mass "purge" -- of any who opposed their extremist politics... culminating in the (seemingly forced) abdication of the founder of the project itself.
And, perhaps even more wild, is the fact that this is only a small fraction of the NixOS story.
A story with a huge number of players, and hundreds of pages of documents. In-fighting. Abuse. Politics. And more than a few swear words.
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