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by pjmlp 688 days ago
I always find this moral duality quite interesting, the product only exists because of the sponsor.
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talldayo 687 days ago
You seem to be unfamiliar with the situation, then. The sponsor wasn't for NixOS itself, but a related in-person event. NixOS had existed for literal decades prior to this.
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diffeomorphism 688 days ago
No, it not because of "the" sponsor, but because of sponsoring in general. Replace the sponsor by any other company/institution/patreon/....
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