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We need to disambiguate the word "you" here. When "you" = an IBM or Apple or Microsoft, then forking is a great option, and a great reason to pick a program wi
by ken 8y ago
We need to disambiguate the word "you" here. When "you" = an IBM or Apple or Microsoft, then forking is a great option, and a great reason to pick a program with a license that allows it. When "you" = some guy sitting at home in his PJs on Sunday morning who reads that his favorite filesystem is moving in a direction he doesn't like, you're basically SOL unless you decide to devote your life to maintaining that FS now.
Maintaining an entire Debian architecture is probably not a one-person job.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoBut, because Debian has such a broad array of contributors, I'm extremely confident they won't drop x86 support unless/until basically everyone else in the world has already moved on, and quite possibly not even then. Whereas Apple really could just up and drop x86 any day now, and I'll just be stuck.