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NixOS - apology from the Foundation Board about sponsorship
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this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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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.
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Maybe 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".