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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2026
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Ansible is US-owned. Even though it's open source, Redhat, a US company, is the one that controls its lifecycle.
NixOS is based out of the EU.
Aren't Nix repos hosted on GitHub which is owned by MacroSlop?
Fun fact, Nix, Nixpkg and NixOS have their roots in the Netherlands. For example, Nixpkg was even described in a PhD thesis at Utrecht University.