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My humble opinion: |
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If people want to work on a project, it is their own decision. Adoption |
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is the decision of higher-level developers and users. It makes |
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absolutely no sense to bash people developing a particular software. You |
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don't like it? Don't use it. You are mad because software X, you were |
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using, decided to depend on software Y that you hate? Fork software X, |
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use something else, express (politely) your disappointment to X's |
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developers, but why would you go hate on Y's developers? |
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Makes no sense. |
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In the open-source world, we run softwares made by millions of man-hours |
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for free because these motivated people liked what they were doing and |
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was altruist enough to share with the World. |
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So World, STFU. |
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On 10/07/2014 04:43 PM, Barry Schwartz wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> skribis: |
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>> I've been around |
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>> Gentoo long enough to see several cycles of people ragequitting over |
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>> this kind of nonsense, and fortunately some do return. |
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> Ragequitters do not matter for the projects we are talking about, even |
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> if they happen to matter for Gentoo (which I stipulate only for |
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> argument’s sake). Is not the goal supposed to be to get users who |
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> normally aren’t even discussing ‘Linux’? |
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> Certainly this is equivalent to the stated goals of the FSF. |
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> So then the question becomes: is systemd the way to achieve the goal, |
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> and, if not, why all the person-hours spent on it? |
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> We have very serious problems with effort-misdirection in free |
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> software. Would that one one-thousandth of the effort went into making |
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> fonts and typography work correctly on GNU systems. |
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