This is exactly right in my view. There is absolutely no human endeavor that is divorced from being “political” if it involves people.
Moreover, to your point, eventually “open source” in many cases ended making a political choice, and taking a stance. And the Nix community will need to do this collectively as well around many of the issues discussed in this original message. And there will be perceived trade-offs from some people. This will absolutely never be avoided.
The reason why is that every time humans think they have “solved” their problems of existence with some world view-derived mechanism to try and coordinate the behavior of people, they simply open a new level of complexity they were not aware of. In the words of Clare W. Graves “the quest that they find is never ending”.
In the case of open source, there were perceived trade-offs with commercialization of software (not going to get into the details, but it’s a true statement). And, there were choices made by open source communities never the less.
In the case of the nix community, and what the board defined as “protecting minorities”, we will either choose to do it collectively, or we will not. And in the view of some people there may be a cost. But if we decide to do it collectively, we will weigh and pay the perceived cost, because we believe it is worth it. And I do believe it’s worth it personally. So I will be there to advocate for it if possible.