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I think the only company I know which spends more time than Anduril getting embroiled in completely unnecessary drama is Automattic.

• dewey 2y ago
  Basecamp / DHH are maybe also good candidates for that list.
  • hinkley 2y ago
    I think that’ll depend on whether you’re just counting totals or drama per unit time.
• skissane 2y ago
  I think they are very different situations. Automattic (and their leadership) used their power over the WordPress open source project as a weapon in a legal dispute with a major competitor. What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some conference. Post a job ad on a project forum dedicated to that purpose - both are activities which, in the general case, the project welcomes - and then project members object, not because of anything they’ve done in the project itself, but because they don’t like the industry Anduril is in, who its customers are, etc Seems to me like completely different situations. The WordPress situation makes Automattic look bad in my eyes, while the Anduril situation makes NixOS look bad in my eyes
  • mfru 2y ago
    As a counterpoint: to me it makes NixOS look good to publicly take an anti-militarist stance, in fact it makes me interested to look more into it than before. Military companies have enough funding to market on their own and not rely on volunteer communities and coopting them in the process.
  • Hizonner 2y ago
    Hey, Stalin may have murdered millions, but what has he done in the project itself? Let's stay on topic here. Not to mention that all the companies in that whole Tolkien-named cluster funnel money directly to Sauron. People get to pick who uses their project for advertising.
  • boltzmann-brain 2y ago
    > What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some conference. Post a job ad on a project forum make weapons for a government controlled by putin