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"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"
by coldtea 8mo ago
"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"
is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS
- ebiederm 8mo agoBut it happens successfully. The code base is Xorg rather than Xfree86 because of one such fork. Gcc went through the egcs fork. OpenOffice became LibreOffice in a fork. When leadership of a project fails to keep the volunteers behind them such forks happen.
- kibwen 8mo agoAnd? I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution without proposing any alternatives, which tends to be a tacit admission that there is no better solution. If you think you have a better solution, let's hear it:
- coldtea 8mo ago>I'm tired of thoughtless drive-by comments pointing out problems with a given solution And? Fortunately, free speech and criticism doesn't stop when someone is tired of hearing it. The alternative doesn't need to be some new solution. A course reversal or change on the existing ones is enough. In which case the criticism already highlights the solution. Besides, the first step of fixing a problem is identifying it.