

nixos was built by functional programming academics and trans people and some undue influence because some early hitlerite at a hip VC-funded shop sold his boss on paying him to be a maintainer won’t change that. nix isn’t a complementary good to the war machine the way red hat was to data center hosting, it’s a novel package manager, DSL and OS that’s like catnip for brogrammers.
we’ve got https://lix.systems/ which is probably the birth of that fork, but also eventually a bean counter at the death factory will look at what they’re paying the nerds to do and fire that whole team












had the same experience on their matrix in like 2017 so I’m not surprised, but the VC piece is new. ty for the context, I don’t have a flakes opinion but good to know about the creator
my point about the bean counters is still relevant. there is nothing in the nix ecosystem that provides a complementary good to weapons manufacturing, so eventually whatever nerd at anduril who’s obsessed with nix will be cowed by capital. this isn’t an AWS/RHEL situation