No, Matt is just a classic CEO exhibiting symptoms of narcissist personality disorder who's now getting served in court and doesn't realise how much he earned it.
Matt went on a Youtube channel last week to partake in a Wordpress speed building challenge, and he got frustrated several times using his own product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqY5bje8D2o
He spent years squashing anyone who complained about Gutenberg, and then he calls WPEngine a cancer and accuses them of offering an inferior version. All to find out that he's not even familiar!
I agree with the theory about him telegraphing the frustration with his investors through his accusations of the fight against "evil private equity." That is so, so typical. Enough accusations form a whole letter of confession with these kind of people.
Note that a pathological kind of "social justice" that alienates a bunch of people who the ingroup considers irredeemable is simply known as sociopathy.
Hey Matt, you're behaving like a normal abuser who's successfully managed to mask up to this point. None of your behavior is clever. If you continue down this path, it's not going to be good for you.
There is a group working to smear Nix, Eelco, and everyone related to the project who are now playing the innocent victims and pretending they didn't sign a letter that started with the words "Eelco Dolstra’s leadership is corrosive to the Nix project." This is where people citing GH issue templates that contain "blabla" reinforces the narrative that the people who were working with Puck to solve the issue before she dropped a zero-day in public are somehow irresponsible. It is just that - a narrative. Everyone cannot stop staring at the sheer amount of narcissism on display in support of this narrative.
The grain of truth is that it's probably not Puck's fault, and the security disclosure process could also be improved since it's evident a ball was accidentally dropped somewhere. More points of constant contact involved in solving these problems are good for everyone.
Watch out, they may call you the problem when they're accidentally talking about themselves...
It's very bad and one can simply look through the Discourse and GitHub issues from earlier this year to discover the full extent of the problem. Watch how they turn a security issue into PR now, this is just a microcosm of the dishonesty.
If you look elsewhere in this thread, many of the bullies are doing PR for Lix and trying to use this situation to their advantage. What no one is disclosing to people is that their fork of nixpkgs (ForkOS) is nearly done, so pointing people to it is going to be almost entirely in their benefit. But, why would sociopaths tell people that when they can just publicly embarrass people instead?
The amount of gaslighting here is frankly astounding. There were some good developers who went over to Lix but also a few pathological liars and primary school bullies. People don't know half of the abuse going on.
I've clicked through a bunch of your references and am yet to see any of the "bullying" you keep talking about across the thread... Please be more concrete and on-point or this is just ad-hominems, insinuations and drama...
I've clicked through a bunch of the references and definitely see lots of crybullying and clearly breaking the CoC. There was an example where the subject of this thread was temporarily banned.
The crybullying in the nearby comment is part of the observation. The two people in that thread have been ganging up on others in the Nix community for months now. Another thread[1]; note the same couple people.
> For example, you were able to dedicate two hours twice a week to attending meetings that you were not welcome at. A lot of people were not able to do that; they did not have the time or energy levels to be able to afford that in the first place.
> What I’m trying to say here is: yes, your situation sucked, and it should not have been necessary. But imagine how much more this might have sucked for other people who did not even have the affordances that you had to cope with this(...)
Then the other person:
> Your projects had multiple issues that were clear and apparent to outsiders that leaked outside your team and had to become a Nixpkgs problem (as I had to become against my own will a Nix maintainer in Nixpkgs). You never acted on that, you never took the necessary actions to show that you (:= your team) know how to manage an open source project.
(...)
> I feel you on the sadness. I am sorry you feel like this. Likewise, I remember what it was for me for the past year to feel like shit when I received this message
This is pretty classic abusive breaking someone down to build them up and tell them how the abuser was much worse off, and the reports from several meetings are much worse. Hitlists of people to remove from the project, that sort of thing. The power games going on are frankly sick, and the most unprofessional thing I have ever heard of in an open source project.
All I'm saying: try to get the other side's perspective. I think there are many people tired of this behavior. When it is presented with a one-sided perspective, the solution seems obvious, but this hostility has colored the past few months of interaction in the Nix community.
There are plenty of fantastic reasons not to, despite the prior issues with Eelco's leadership style. The NixOS Starknet situation[1] was very suspicious and involved many of the wrong incentives for an open source project. One of the primary people involved was trying to get the drops transferred to other people's accounts (getting around geofencing prohibiting US withdrawals too). So it is virtually guaranteed that is being transferred toward something other than the NixOS binary cache despite it being emphasised it would go there. I guess it will be going to "save Nix together" for the fork. All €20 000 or what-not of it.
At least Lix is doing some interesting things with the language and fixing some long-standing regressions, but some of the people involved seem to enjoy standing next to others doing the work whilst they loudly take credit, and participating in cryptocurrency ponzi schemes using open source as the vessel.
