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  • wewbull@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.mlopen letter to the NixOS foundation
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    2 months ago

    I think you’re right to be suspicious. The XZ attack has showed that there are people and organisations out there that would love to get hold of a piece of trusted critical infrastructure like Nix. They’ll go the long lengths to do it, manipulate people, and exploit the maintainer’s desire to do the right thing.

    And if the person can’t stand by their critism and can only give wooly examples, then best to ignore it.


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    Honestly, without concrete examples of why this is a problem, I just wish people wouldn’t do this. Open source projects aren’t democracies. They are do-ocracies. People get “positions” by getting off their arse and contributing. Nix OS surviving doesn’t depend on how many users it has. It depends on how many developers it has.

    If critisism is coming from the developer base, fair enough. If it’s coming from the user base then all they are going to do is stop the developers wanting to do what they do, and then the project is dead.

    I know there was the poor choice of sponsor for one of the live events recently, but I suspect this has opened the flood gates for people to pointlessly criticise from any direction.





  • Generally, my view is if it’s an electron app it’s going to be a crap user experience.

    You are talking as if all people can make a native app with the same knowledge and amount of effort as it would take to develop a website.

    No, not all people can’t do that, but I think they should learn. It will lead to better results. Or are you saying that web developers are inherently incapable of developing native applications?