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One bad thing about GNU/Linux is with the current direction of things, at some point in time we won't have this easy anymore. IMHO the complexity gets a bit to
by drdaeman 16y ago
One bad thing about GNU/Linux is with the current direction of things, at some point in time we won't have this easy anymore.
IMHO the complexity gets a bit too high, and cost of maintaining forks gets too big, so even free licensing does not really matter anymore. One has to be very motivated, to keep up with his fork.
- rjbond3rd 16y agoWhat's the complexity you're referring to? I don't see it. Having lots of choice for window managers is decades old and completely normal. It's modular and it continues to get easier. I don't see any burden but perhaps I misunderstand.
- drdaeman 16y agoI were thinking of complexity of patching the software and keeping up with upstream (i.e. maintaining a fork). I just have a feeling (highly subjective, sorry) that some major GNU/Linux distros (especially Ubuntu) are turning from a distribution of loose coupled exchangeable components to monolithic tightly-integrated products. Well, Debian seems perfectly fine in this regard, so even as Ubuntu user (for now) I don't care much about the situation. Sorry - I were wrong writing like this was about the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.