[flurie]

There are a few things this is responding to, but since it does not provide the context directly, here they are (by no means exhaustive):

- Anduril dropped as NixCon sponsor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418351

- Open letter against MIC sponsorship: https://nixos-users-against-mic-sponsorship.github.io/

- Open letter in support of MIC sponsorship: https://nixos-users-for-western-mil-and-govs.github.io/

- Updated sponsorship policy: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-event-sponsor...

- Open letter asking Eelco Dolstra to step down from NixOS Foundation and Nix team: https://save-nix-together.org/

[srid]

There's more to it than Anduril sponsorship. i.e., the controversy surrounding the moderation team's actions in the last few months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912

To address this, a RFC was opened yesterday:

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175

(Ironically, the authors got banned right after opening the PR)