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Please fork Debian. I find it very difficult to get behind a movement whose primary complains are that the status quo is "a slap in the face to the _____ philo
by chias 12y ago
Please fork Debian.
I find it very difficult to get behind a movement whose primary complains are that the status quo is "a slap in the face to the _____ philosophy" and "betrays the _____ philosophy" and so on. If you want to sway me, you have to tell me why your way is better. The alternative is "offensive" to you? I cannot begin to describe how much I don't care. You can tell a lot about a movement by those they stand with, and you've listed your them as "Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse", a boycott, and finally something that does nothing but mock those it disagrees with. I mean you may be bringing up valid points but curb the drama, eh?
So I'm all for a fork. That is the point of open source, no? Go on and make a fork and if it's awesome people will use it, otherwise people won't. And maybe then we can curtail the endless arguments about this in Debian. But in spite of the title this article, it really didn't read like it was asking if we should fork Debian. It read like it was asking people to pressure Debian to follow the authors' agendas, with a threat (?) of making a fork if it didn't.
- VLM 12y agoThe problem is most of us are just quietly moving to freebsd.
- spb 12y ago> It read like it was asking people to pressure Debian to follow the authors' agendas, with a threat (?) of making a fork if it didn't. This. The point of this site seems to be the author begging Debian not to make him fork, because that would be such an imposition on him. It's the same threat as a child threatening to run away from home (except that parents have a reason to care about their child's life).