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Arch is probably the most bazaar operating system in existence. AFAIK all of its developers are volunteers, and thousands of users take an active part in creati
by 5e92cb50239222b 3y ago
Arch is probably the most bazaar operating system in existence. AFAIK all of its developers are volunteers, and thousands of users take an active part in creating and maintaining ~75k of (non-orphan) packages for it. AUR has a very low barrier of entry — you just need an account — and still all packages I use are of good quality (the most popular are usually excellent, and with much less bureaucracy than other distros).
I just can't see it being taken over by anyone, Valve or anybody else.
- neurostimulant 3y agoMany components inside a modern linux distros are actually developed by people employed by big corporation. Take systemd for example, where a huge portion of its core developers are employed by red hat, microsoft and facebook. The distro itself may be run entirely by volunteers, but the softwares they packaged might not be developed entirely by volunteers.