"The ongoing debate on these issues has been divisive to the community and deleterious to our collective goals"<p>If you simply all agreed with me we wouldn't have all these important community members getting in fights and leaving.<p>"I am just one member of the five-member Nix team and hold no more formal authority than the others in determining the direction of the team"<p>Thought the inclusion of the word "formal" here was was pretty funny.<p>Both the letter and this response are pretty disappointing. The letter was too long and didn't make a great case even if it was ultimately probably right in many ways. And Eelco did not attempt to understand the writers, choosing to simply deny every single thing, which is not great leadership.<p>Even if he did nothing wrong at all, he makes no attempt to reach out to people who feel he has, to reconcile with them. To people who feel, justifiable or not, excluded he simply says: I've always done my best to create an inclusive environment. He doesn't seem to comprehend that one can try, but fail.<p>For someone with some interest in Nix but never having tried it, this has done enough to turn me off it for a few years. Who knows if it will still be around by then, considering the leadership and community.