Does DetSys take Nix open core?
While I understand where the “open core” reading is coming from, I should also say that the Determinate documentation is saying this:
At the moment, the Nix in Determinate Nix matches the upstream version. In the future, however, Determinate Nix will include patches that have not yet been released by the upstream project.
I think you can read that in two ways. The charitable reading would be that DetSys will introduce things into Determinate Nix which will be up-streamed later. The uncharitable reading would be that DetSys will never up-stream these changes and they remain proprietary add-ons to their new product.
But unless you jump to the uncharitable reading immediately, it is not necessary to conclude that going “open core” with Nix is the aim here.
Did Eelco do a stepping back up in the shadows?
Did anyone ever ask themselves how the NixOS Foundation should, purely from a legal perspective, continue to operate as a legal entity with nobody on there? I mean it’s not just Eelco. We had a lot of stepping down lately. So it’s also all the others except Ron. And Ron is in the US. The foundation is a legal entity in the Netherlands.
Someone has to put a stamp on things to pay the bills. The stuff that Eelco appears to have done lately and that was posted here is just that.
Again, charitable reading would be: the whole thing will be decided / reorganized / updated officially once the elections are through and we have an actual governing body.