I love Linux just like the next guy and have had several installations of NixOS to toy around.
I confess I was taken by suprise to stumble across the linked article and am not sure what to make of it.
Was someone more closely involved and can shed some light into this? Because, to be honest, I don’t feel very informed on that matter and what to make of it…
I don’t know anything about NixOS, but this kind of thing can’t be unfamiliar to anyone who has been paying attention over the last ~10 years.
Eric S. Raymond was right: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
That article is gold. The blog stopped in 2021 though.