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Determinate Systems, Inc.

Did you hear the news? We released Determinate Nix 3.0 yesterday! Determinate Nix is built on infra compliant with SOC 2 Type II and provides a flake stability guarantee—both vital to enterprise adoption. Learn more about why this matters for critical infrastructure in our blog post: determinate.systems/posts/dete

determinate.systemsDeterminate Nix 3.0Business-class Nix for critical infrastructure, complete with a flake stability guarantee

@determinatesystems This mentions “formal stability guarantee” a lot, but nowhere does it actually define what that means, or am I blind?

@determinatesystems I don't think you've thought this through, or you are intentionally forking Nix, with the goal of pulling an "open core". I wish you good luck.

You have not discussed this with the upstream Nix team, so do you really expect me to assume good intent?

This has obviously raised a lot of questions in the community, and I've been giving context in discourse.nixos.org/t/determin

NixOS Discourse · Determinate Nix 3.0

@determinatesystems exactly what we needed. More fragmentation and confusion in Nix. You are going to kill the think you are trying to promote.

@determinatesystems I'm glad that Determinate Nix is proprietary software. With it being built on such super secure infrastructure, I am much more secure than with those pesky free software flavours of Nix which I could build on my own machines. But these machines are not certified, so that'd be much less secure!