Was this about some PC nonsense? This post doesn't really point to any concrete problems, but seem to be about someone trying to gain control over the project?
Apparently it is about Nix, for the first time, seeing real world usage by a serious corporation, but that usage turning out to be autonomous drones aiding the US in killing random civilians on the other side of the world.
Interesting for a Defence company to consider using an OSS project that's not in any way, as far as I know, tied to the US Government (or any other country).
What happens when a substantial amount of contributors come from China (which is common given how many developers are available in China)? Are they going to start restricting who can contribute? Or have strict vetoing of non-US nationals?
I bet they have fairly strict policies when it comes to vetting code. If you think about it would still have to have such policies in place to safeguard against malicious actors within the company.
Right, that explains it. The post is really lacking when it comes to concrete examples of what is going on.
"The ad-hoc structure of maintainers here better represent the goals of Nix users and their methods of success. Yet, these contributors are beginning to flee."
It also makes the claim above, is there any truth to that? Is there evidence of contributors fleeing, and if so where? What is stopping them from forking the project?
It's relatively easy to find articles from the horse's mouth about this. If you read through the euphemisms you can see that besides drone/counter-drone stuff, they also participate in building and deploying tech that are not purely "defensive", not focused solely on drones, but capable of and built for violence against people, infrastructure and other (manned) vehicles too.
Suggest clicking through since the URLs are not nearly as clear as the content:
ALTIUS-700M brings unmatched payload capacity to the loitering munitions market, combining multi-domain launch, proven collaborative autonomy, and category-leading range with a larger, penetrating warhead to kill or disable armored targets and infrastructure.
TITAN is a vehicle-mounted expeditionary ground station that will accelerate and simplify the Army’s ability to access and process massive volumes of Space, High Altitude, Aerial, and Terrestrial sensors to provide actionable targeting information for enhanced mission command and long range precision fires. TITAN will reduce sensor-to-shooter timelines by enhancing the automation of target recognition and geolocation from multiple sensors [...]
Yeah no I thought of that, and consider saying something funny back, but then I remembered what HN's policy was on the subject, and thought that in the case someone fails to see the sarcasm, they'll not be confused.
