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

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Bryan Lunduke
July 02, 2024

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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:
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.)

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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).

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Use either Debian, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, RedHat or SUSE or Arch and Gentoo.
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".
you open source autistic tards are one tranny meltdown away from losing whatever distro or package manager or tool you use daily

nobody will be spared from the software apocalypse when the remainder of the greybeards retire and the only people left to develop software are rotting trannies and technologically illiterate zoomers
 
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.

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!"
Their entire reason for existing is petty tyranny. They need people to rule over and force to capitulate to their insane demands. If everyone simply took their ball and went home every time a tranny showed up, they'd stop bothering us. It's not fun being the emperor of an empty room.

You don't defeat a bioweapon by bravely letting yourself get killed by it.
 
Just flip the script on them
My man, it's been a near decade of this faggotry and rarely did this work. They literally operate on "rules for thee, not for me". There's no argument to be made, no middle ground. It's either you outright tell them to fuck off and weather the storm from doing so, or bend the knee so you have a chance of being thrown out last.
 
There's gonna be a severe competency crisis and software shortage with how often this is happening, a microcosm of it is already visible with the Minecraft modloader drama and how trannies refuse to settle on a standard, so they enact a mutiny and subsequently run the project into the ground. Same for PokeRogue, same for a number of other repositories I'm sure.
Troons and pajeets will be the downfall of software development.
 
I know there is a thread related to open source projects and to Linux, but is there explicitly a thread for “programming communities trannies have ruined” where we can just list these out?

There are so many communities that trannies have RUINED with their “Code of Conduct” nonsense as well. They need to be listed out.
 
I will respect her pronouns (for now) because she has the conservative pride flag on her bio, not the woke one.
Just because he doesn't use the "progress" pride flag doesn't mean he's conservative. If anything he would definitely use it but there is no emoji for it yet. You're reading too much into this.
 
Is there a single distro that isn't filled with goober retards who want to ruin everything by making it about themselves? Cos I need move from windows at some point and I don't want to run troon os.
In addition to the other mentioned distros, Slackware. It's far from cutting edge these days, but it may be unique in that it's old (released 1993 and still maintained), somewhat popular, and very difficult for trannies to infiltrate. It's mostly maintained by one guy who holds a position as benevolent dictator and is uninterested in fagging up his software.
 
In addition to the other mentioned distros, Slackware. It's far from cutting edge these days, but it may be unique in that it's old (released 1993 and still maintained), somewhat popular, and very difficult for trannies to infiltrate. It's mostly maintained by one guy who holds a position as benevolent dictator and is uninterested in fagging up his software.
Same thing for OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt started and still rules over that project and I have never heard of any fag shit flaring up over there.
 
Fuck me.

Nixos is autistic as fuck, but it's also the only distro I've used for any substantial period of time that I've had no dependency related breakages. Some things such as running random binaries are unreasonably difficult but it's also hard to break and easy to rollback which made it a perfect use case for me.

But now? Even if you ignore the tranny politics and just use software you probably can't, because like GrapheneOS there's no way you can trust them not to compromise the software to hunt the user as their invsible enemy. Distrohopping over this is not an overreaction.

Man how many times do I need to peak? Already peaking to hate trannies as a fundamental rule isn't enough, now it's clear anything short of TTD will one day infect every aspect of life. Fuck me man I just want to make my autistic software in peace.
 
I've noticed troons have been lashing out more lately, but maybe that's because even they have noticed the same pendulum they wound so far in their favor is beginning to careen straight back at them? Anyways, I wish any devs who stick around a truly painful time, with far more stress than any job. It's actually kind of revolting how troons were able to so swiftly turn contributing to open source even worse than working a corpo job in such short order. I hope the maintainers enjoy spending all their time merging edits to the CoC and other info files while actual contributions dry up, they deserve it for not nipping this shit in the bud.
 
holy shit.
i knew nixos was starting to fall apart and delve into chaos but this is beyond that.
i honesty hope this acts as a lesson to the rest of the community, don't put psychopath's in charge of anything on a project. nor allow them to sway anything relating to it. otherwise the project is doomed to fall. and nixos fell spectacularly.
 
TRANS RIGHTS!!!!
Forget trans rights. I believe it’s high time to start talking about trans wrongs.

Something Null said about how FOSS projects run in the western world really stuck with me. We really did used to be good at that, but low-value dangerhairs really did fuck everything up.

With any luck this distro will eat itself alive and die and the current maintainers blacklisted from the industry forever.
 
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.
It’s more you have mercy tempering justice. Which you shouldn’t do for every case.
 
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