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David Leverton posted on Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:30 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Greg KH wrote: |
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>> No one forces you to use any of this software if you do not want to. |
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>> There are lots of other operating systems out there, feel free to |
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>> switch to them if you do not like the way this one is working out, no |
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>> one is stopping you. |
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> Or alternatively, the people who hate Unix could move to some other OS |
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> that suites them better, rather than trying to destroy what everyone |
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> else is perfectly happy with. |
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I see the "hate Unix" angle tho I'd call it a bit strong... |
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But trying to destroy what everyone else is perfectly happy with?? |
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How is simply writing some software, which after all is FLOSS and which |
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nobody is forced to use, "destroying"? They're taking their own software |
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where their vision points it, no more, no less. I don't really agree |
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with where it's going either, but that's part of the very freedom of the |
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FLOSS community we're all a part of. Others can fork the software or |
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provide less integrated substitutes, if desired. Meanwhile, if it's what |
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other coders choose to build on, well, they're free to do that too. It |
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doesn't mean I have to use their software! |
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FWIW, that's one reason I'm no longer using kmail, for instance. When |
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kmail akonadified, I tried it, then switched to claws-mail. It's ALSO one |
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reason I'm using gentoo, I get to choose whether I build kde with akonadi |
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and semantic-desktop support, or not. And I choose not. I see the kdepim |
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folks vision, and they're free to pursue it, but their path and my path |
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simply diverged, that's all. Kde runs SO much nicer without the weight |
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of semantic-desktop dragging it down. |
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And if the systemd and udev path fully merge, I'll have a choice at that |
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point. If systemd looks mature and stable enough at that point to be |
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used on my system, I'll probably try it. I might like it. =:^) Or, like |
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akonadified kmail, I may find it a rube goldberg of a system that I'd |
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rather stay away from. Given history, I'm sure there will be alternate |
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solutions available, tho it'll no doubt take some serious work and |
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adaptation on my part to switch. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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