Announcing Determinate Nix

[samrose]

@KFearsoff

Personally, I don’t view Nix as a business - I view it as a community project led by countless passionate volunteers. Therefore, I think the community comes first, and everything else second. So I call the value of the “industry” into question - sure, it will bring new people to the community that will work on the project, but what good does it do when we have so many issues even with as many people as we have now?

Back in Apr 2024 I suggested Consider applying Ostrom Principles to Nix organizational structure

And the 1st principle is

1. Define clear group boundaries.

and then another relevant one is

7. Provide accessible, low-cost means for dispute resolution.

If the boundary of what is a community led “commons” is not clear to everyone, then disputes will arise.

If disputes arise, and the community has no support for conflict resolution, the outcome historically in all of human society has been either a total collapse of the “commons” or major dysfunction as people start fighting one another based on individual interpretations.

Are the boundaries of the community led commons that is nix/nixos clear to everyone? Probably not yet, and it’s not always an easy feat to achieve. Or, if they are among a significant amount of people, there probably is not consensus built for the majority of people who would be present to discuss, or carry out actions in the community.

But it would be a benefit to this community to define these things as much as possible, and create a larger consensus around that. And, it would benefit this community to have some fair dispute resolution as I stated back in April, too.