I think it’s problematic that NixCpp is now essentially open core, I wish you had found more palatable ways to make money. It also scares me that DetSys twitter releasing security vulnerabilities in advance of proper channels isn’t just a major oopsie but one of many actions DetSys have been taking to deligitimize the open source Nix efforts.
This includes:
- sabotaging documentation efforts
- not implementing semver on flake inputs but turning it into a closed source platform
- not disclosing business ties with controversial sponsors when having employees as the head of the board
- staying silent on many cultural issues that people like graham would have previously championed, likely purely to avoid the potential for bad PR hurting profits
I put eza on flakehub soon after it was announced, I’ve given you plenty of good faith (I even made you aware that it was problematic that you didn’t have a way to dispatch the flakehub publish CI action).
To be blunt DetSys is an extremely bad and hostile open source citizen in our ecosystem, and I’ll be glad to see the day that you make your final departure from the project, any historical contributions aside. You can make money in tasteful ways, many other veteran contributors do so.