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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by pjmlp on Thursday August 01, 2024 @01:45AM (#41126475)
I always find this moral duality quite interesting, the product only exists because of the sponsor.
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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by diffeomorphism on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:09AM (#41126827)
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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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by talldayo on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:53AM (#41129070)
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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