Comment by sshine

1 year ago

> if the nix community is that against me taking money from the military

As far as I understand it, the objection would be if

  - you were simultaneously a key person in Nix, like a release manager
  - your company officially sponsored events that associated Nix with military
  - several of your employees were active contributors to core parts of Nix

I think the last one might not even be a big issue, or at least it might not blow up.

Surely, the usage of Nix in any domain is a free choice. You can't really police that anyways.

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sshine

steinuil 1 year ago

I think the main objection was Anduril sponsoring NixCon, because a lot of people see it as the Nix community advertising a miltech company in exchange for money the foundation doesn't necessarily need.

jonringer117 1 year ago

Correct, there was an open letter [1].
And to clarify above, there was no "contributors of this company" dynamic to the outrage.
"jobs" are things which come and go, not a lot of people are will to burn their personal image for a [potentially] uncaring company. And I'm certainly not one of them either.
[1]: https://nixos-users-against-mic-sponsorship.github.io/