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"I don't like you exercising your right to foss, so we are going to make using foss harder for you". Foss shouldn't be about us going out on our way to block o

• jsiepkes 5y ago
  > Foss shouldn't be about us going out on our way to block others. Sure, but this is about the Alpine project getting tired of being mistaken for the maintainers of a fork of their project. How would you feel if the power company would call you every week because they think your someone else and you had to explain the same thing every week?
  • encryptluks2 5y ago
    How are they being mistaken? No where do they claim to be the official Alpine image. This is like saying anyone who uploads an Alpine image with a few self-built packages installed is somehow conflating themselves with representing Alpine Linux, when in fact there is nothing the creator of this image has done to indicate that they are in any way considered the official Alpine project. In fact, Docker Hub has a place for official images. If someone is mistaking this package as being supported by Alpine Linux as a whole, then they also the same people that would mistake Google for any app installed from the Google Play Store.
    • Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
      > How are they being mistaken? Because the image is named "alpine-glibc", but the "how" is irrelevant. People are getting confused and that's a problem. > No where do they claim to be the official Alpine image. Doesn't stop people from being mistaken. > If someone is mistaking this package as being supported by Alpine Linux as a whole, then they also the same people that would mistake Google for any app installed from the Google Play Store. Agreed.
      • nightowl_games 5y ago
        > People are getting confused and that's a problem. Let's see the data.