NixOS moderation team resigns in protest of Steering Committee interference (opens in new tab)

Great news for Open Source. Doing political activism and purging contributors who do not align with your world view have no place in any company or open source project.

For anyone looking to get a summary of the whole NixOS drama, Jon Ringer (who got permabanned) has a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA

My own permanban is detailed in this post:

https://srid.ca/nixos-mod

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398891