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Linux Distribution "NixOS" drama: Moderation Team resigns in protest over Interference of Leadership; Elected Leader works for US Military Company, fearing alignment with US fascistic development (beehaw.org)

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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

see https://nixos.org/community/teams/steering-committee/

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

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're kind of welcoming and accomodating with that. I've sent some drive-by PRs towards NixOS and it was always very easy and productive interactions.

But I guess it's more complicated at that scale. You can't just do whatever like in smaller projects. Someone needs to be in charge of money and finances, there will be dissent that doesn't just go away on its own. And mid- to longterm decisions need to be made. Architecture decisions and sometimes that's not easy and might be contrary to what the community needs and wants right now. It's just a lot of overhead, but larger projects work quite differently from smaller ones.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I get that big projects are not the same, but in my experience there's always a hierarchy, not a collection of independent bodies (except for fan-made communities that are clearly "unofficial", those are independent, sure). It's not unheard of for maintainers at the top of the hierarchy to influence other parts of the organization, like moderation. In fact most open source projects are like that, led by a group of "benevolent dictators".

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you're right with that. And it's not like the Free Software community has agreed on some form of project structure. There are projects doing all kinds of stuff from democracy to meritocracy, elitism to dictatorship. Or some of the common ways commercial businesses are laid out. Though I think once someone appoints several bodies, they need to make sure they're both all equipped to do their task, but don't mess with each other at the same time. Everything else is stupid. But I don't know what's right in this specific instance.