Debian has always seemed to be about choice. You can even run it (for now, at least) on the FreeBSD kernel if you so choose. Obviously they are going to have to

Debian has always seemed to be about choice. You can even run it (for now, at least) on the FreeBSD kernel if you so choose. Obviously they are going to have to require systemd for Gnome 3.14+, but I see no reason not to allow installing a different init system for people managing headless LAMP servers via SSH, if there is an appropriate amount of developers willing to maintain the necessary packages for this. Onto debianfork.org ... if history is any indication, naming it Pure Debian is only going to cause a world of pain for everyone. Forkers really need to stop trying to name their projects $superiorAdjective $projectName. That's never going to go over well with $projectName. And if they do fork Debian, I sure hope they don't set the default UI font to Georgia 40. (I know it adapts to browser width. I don't like setting my browser to 200px width to read a webpage comfortably.)