Culture NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder - The Linux project descends into chaos as political activists enforce extremist politics.

Bryan Lunduke
July 02, 2024



The NixOS project -- a Linux distribution and packaging system which has achieved significant success -- has descended into chaos as political activists seek to implement extreme, discriminatory policies... and ban those who raise objections to the discrimination.

As the political activists within NixOS put it: They are committing a "purge" of people they call "Nazis".

First, a little background to set the stage for this wild tale...

Not actively pro-Trans? You're a Nazi!​

There is a significant, easily observable pattern of extreme bullying emerging within the Linux & Open Source world: One where people are forced to declare allegiance to "Trans Issues", or face severe consequences.

The typical pattern, within any given software project or company, goes something like this:

1. Trans Activists bully people into giving a disproportionately large amount of power (and praise) to people who identify as "Trans" -- often discriminating against "non-Trans" people in the process.
2. If someone raises concerns regarding that discrimination: That person is called a "Nazi", "White Supremacist", and "Transphobe".
3. That person is then banned from the project, community, or company (likewise, anyone who defends or agrees with that person is also banned).

Note: It is not necessary for a person to say anything even remotely negative about "Trans" people or issues in order to be banned and attacked by the Trans Activists. The simple act of objecting to discrimination of non-Trans people is enough to provoke attacks and bullying.

A few recent examples of this bullying within major Linux and Open Source projects:

• openSUSE declared that anyone who does not fully support "Trans" activities -- and wave the "Pride Flags" -- is "Rotten Flesh" who should be banned from the entire Linux world.
• Asahi & elementary Linux both made a policy of not allowing any users or contributors who do not actively support "Trans" activities.
• The Hyprland creator was banned, by a Red Hat employee, from the Free Desktop project after a perceived lack of reverence for "Trans" activities and "pronouns".

Now, it appears, we can add NixOS to that prestigious list.

The NixOS "Trans Only" Committee Seat​

This story begins, as most wild tales do, in an incredibly dull way.

Back in April, 2024, leadership within NixOS saught to create a new committee (focused on approving monetary sponsors of Nix).

I know. A committee talking about sponsorships. Boring, right? Trust me, this gets crazy.

A small group of individuals -- who are best described as "Political Activists" -- demanded that this small committee must include dedicated seats for people identified as "Gender Minority". (Aka: "Trans" People.)


Source: Nix Sponsorship Policy Discussion, 2024-04-07

Some NixOS project contributors raised concerns about having dedicated voting seats for one specific "minority group" (but not for others).

The core of these concerns seemed to be that this was, effectively, discriminating against some groups in order to provide a disproportionate advantage for one specific group (Trans).


Source: NixOS forum

So far, this is a pretty simple story.

• One group wants a dedicated "Trans only" seat on a voting committee.
• Another group is concerned that this would be discriminatory.
• The two disagree... and discuss.

Straight forward -- and boring -- right?

Unfortunately, things get dark. Really dark. In a hurry.

The NixOS "Purge"​

Instead of the two sides discussing their differences -- and coming to some sort of agreement -- the political activists (the "Trans Only Seat" group) decided to take a more... intense approach.

They began, what they called, a "purge".


Source: Mastodon screenshot of a chat session

"What is needed is a purge," stated one of the NixOS leaders who advocated for the "Trans Only Seat", referring to people who disagreed with his stance.
"I don't disagree," stated another.

The desire to conduct a "purge" continued... with the libelous attacks ramping up.


Source: Mastodon

This same NixOS leader referred to the NixOS project as a "Nazi bar" (referring to many of the people raising objections to the "Trans Only Seat")... reiterated the need for a "purge"... and finished it off with an image of the Antifa flag.

Context of using the Antifa Flag: Within the United States, many local governments and organizations consider Antifa to be a violent, terrorist organization. Antifa has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks (including riots, attempts to burn down Federal government buildings, and violent assaults on journalists). "Antifa" has a track record of labeling any who oppose them as "Nazis". That this symbol would be used, by NixOS Foundation Leadership, while calling for a "purge" of the "Nazis" they disagree with, is significant and worth noting.

On April 21st, 2024, the "Purge" begins.


Source: NixOS Moderation Log of some people banned as part of "the purge".

Over the days that followed, several contributors to NixOS were suspended from the project -- including forums and other communication systems (with some individuals, eventually, completely banned).

After an exhaustive search, The Lunduke Journal was unable to find a single instance where the banned and suspended individuals made any derogatory statements against "Trans" individuals or any other groups.

These "purged" people were labeled as "Nazis" by some NixOS leaders... in many cases because they were not sufficiently supportive of the concept of a "Trans Only Seat" on a voting committee (among other political topics).

It didn't stop with the rank-and-file contributors to NixOS, either. It went all the way to the top, with accusations being posted regarding the founder of Nix, Eelco Dolstra. Prompting a response from the Nix founder.


Source: Blog post by Nix founder, Eelco Dolstra

"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.


Screenshot of the Google Doc where the abdication letter was drafted.

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.

What's more... the saga continues to unfold, with NixOS itself currently in a state of chaos at the hands of a small number of political activists.
But the rest of this story... is for another day.

Source (Archive)

 

[Catboy Ranch]

Nigger. It looks like a man. I don't know how to break it to you, this dude doesn't even look like a lady.

I'm well aware of what she looks like. I'm talking right now as the gay guy in HR. Talking lightly about sexual assault is a very id/testosterone-fueled/teen-stunted behavior.

 

[GNU Abyss]

How was this possible anyways?! Why didn’t anyone just say “NO!”?!

Source on everything below: my crack pipe.

Because of money, the same reason any open source project that gets funding immediately attracts a swarm of axe wound tranny sharks. A lot of people who invest time into developing things don't do it for fun anymore, it's always a 4D chess scheme to turn into a profitable business. The first step is to integrate your new pet project into your current workplace, so you get a little more job security and can tell your boss that your company's needs can be merged into the project faster. Whoops, a tranny mob just descended on it and you can't tell them to fuck off because, chances are, it's against the law where you live or they can sic HR cunts on you using the real life identity attached to your commits. Do you now tell your boss that the earlier arrangement is fucked because you told some grifter "no"? Do you think he'd care whose fault it is?

There could be more factors at play, like most open software devs being limp-wristed simps and still carrying the early hacker mentality that celebrated being a deranged freak high on futurology farts. However, it's probably mostly about personal benefit and hustling at the end of the day.

 

[glue eater]

Fun fact, Linus Torvald's great-grandfather was the prominent Nazi Toivo Karanko.

I just thought you'd find it interesting.

 

[Overly Serious]

Every year I more appreciate where Ayn Rand was coming from when she condemned "altruism" and "justice" and held up the pursuit of money as a nobler virtue. When someone is after profit I can trust them - they'll do what I need if they get sufficient money for it, they will hire someone based on that person's ability to do the job not on their "values".

This is some Fountainhead crap.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The rAGPdar is going off.

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Too bad then she might have trouble to explain why Lenin have some rich bankers like Olof Aschberg as admirers.

 

[Troonos]

Society as a whole needs to purge the troon menace.

 

[pwnest injun]

There's a reason that Commies don't get Civil Rights protections. They are an actively hostile element.

 

[Drain Todger]

There's gonna be a severe competency crisis and software shortage with how often this is happening

Just as planned. The ruling class despise open source and want it dead. They want you stuck with Bill Gates' shit that is CIA and NSA backdoored from the factory so they can gaze into your butthole 24/7 with laser precision from thousands of miles away. That's why they infested open source with troons to drive out all the good coders and turn all of these projects into heaps of shitcode by petulant morons in striped kneesocks.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

This is actually a good thing.

The talent will refocus elsewhere, purged of distractions and drama. The distilled autism left behind will eat itself and die while arguing over the trans flag or the pride flag being the default wallpaper on the next revision.

I wouldn't want to work in open source after having had this happen, especially if my name and face was out there like "jonringer". It's a good warning for older folx to GTFO and let the youth inherit the crumbling infrastructure problems.

I will respect her pronouns (for now) because she has the conservative pride flag on her bio, not the woke one.

Where did you get the "conservative pride flag" joke from? I've only heard that one from Sargon/Lotus Eaters.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Not looking so smug now, are ya linoosers.

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

That's a shame, I was looking into this project as well.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Funny how Theo de Raadt doesn't seem to have this problem.

 

[Safir]

For the sake of the future of your project or community, trannies must be gatekept, and all those engaged in gatekeeping them out need to have their personal information well guarded.

You can gatekeep true and honest women. You can't gatekeep trannies very well, the call is coming from inside the house. Your best hope against troons is a central authority that declared for sanity, but it's vulnerable to rugpulls and gargeted attacks (see: Null).

There's a reason that Commies don't get Civil Rights protections. They are an actively hostile element.

Commies don't get civil rights protections because civil rights is hiv invented by solzhenitsyn troons like you to use against commies, and you infected the whole world with it because you like raping children. And then you blame the commies, because you're subhuman solzhenitsyn troons.

Spoiler: maps

International sanctions against South Africa


Faggotry




The nose effect.

Here's another troon pedophile blaming commies

These signed up right away to get on the Politburo.

and giving the troon a tongue bath

I will respect her pronouns (for now) because she has the conservative pride flag on her bio, not the woke one.

"Remember, the pride flag is conservative == good, but five years of hard labor for faggotry is communist == bad".

 

[Daniel Wallace]

If Trans women are women, then how could they be considered a minority if most humans are women?

 

[The Ugly One]

Trans Activists bully people into giving a disproportionately large amount of power (and praise) to people who identify as "Trans"

If you allow a troon any power whatsoever in your organization, it's you own damn fault when they blow it up. You know, their tendency to ruin everything when they're in charge suggests maybe they are really women on the inside.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

> hates Nazis
> enforces extreme politics, kicks founder & bans anyone who doesn't support Troonism

You know all of this could have easily been settled with just a few words

Tranny: "We need to get rid of NAZIS!"
Normal person: "so then, we need to get rid of you? Because you're acting like one!"

Just flip the script on them, and if you get enough people to dogpile on the tranny, it'll go away.

• If it comes back with reinforcements, keep the dogpiling going on, and they will go away
• if they decide to blog about how nasty you were, just go "lol yea we totally did that" and own up to it, you'll get a lot more respect from everyone else than bowing down and appologising.

Like at this point, trying to have a good PR with them is a loose/loose situation because it's NEVER enough. Call them out, put up a wall, and set up insect traps around the wall. It's not that fucking difficult.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

The rAGPdar is going off.

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100% AGP. every single AGP has a made up story about how some guy in public is aggressively hitting on them making them feel uncomfortable. every single AGP does this, and it is always a lie.

totally not a mentally ill fetish, btw.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Tranny: "We need to get rid of NAZIS!"
Normal person: "so then, we need to get rid of you? Because you're acting like one!"

And then a bunch of suspiciously well funded "influencers" pick up the story and have your life destroyed for daring to criticize a tranny.

As long as trannies are useful tools of globalist hegemony, there is no winning move. Once they infest something, just accept that it's lost and move on. It looks like maybe in the next 5-10 years we might see them losing favor of their totalitarian masters because they're just so wildly unpopular among every demographic that isn't "privileged first world girls who think having a tranny friend makes them more popular", so you can fight back then.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Once they infest something, just accept that it's lost and move on.

it's this kind of mindet that allows them to get away with the things they do in the first place. If you move somewhere else, they are going to follow you regardless.

It looks like maybe in the next 5-10 years we might see them losing favor of their totalitarian masters because they're just so wildly unpopular among every demographic that isn't "privileged first world girls who think having a tranny friend makes them more popular", so you can fight back then.

And what if they don't lose favor and continue to be the useful idiot pets of their masters? "Oh well i guess you shouldn't just use the internet anymore, everything is lost, game over!"

 

[generic sauce]

Not looking so smug now, are ya linoosers.

THF nixos is autistic as fuck and this is coming from someone who uses arch and has used gentoo and installed linux from scratch before. Also like with most FOSS shit as long as you don't get involved with their faggotry then they have absolutely no power. Plus if I do happen to use a program that is trannyware they should know that a nazi is using it and their isn't a fucking thing they can do about it.