Re: Devuan

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:06:26 -0700
Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo ([email protected]):
> 
> > That's why I find valuable that the work made by devuan will get
> > integrated into Debian and that's why I really don't think what
> > happened can't be changed and deserve a flamewar.  
> 
> Nor did it merit a fork, IMO.  But the freedom to fork is, of course,
> the foundation of open source, so it's quintessentially their choice.

I think all forks are merited. Some fail, and that's OK. Some succeed,
and that's usually a good thing. Without forks, Inkscape would still be
Sodiponi, Claws-Mail would still be Sylpheed, IPCop would still be
Smoothwall. I see all three as improvements, and I bet there were hard
feelings and questions of whether each fork was merited.

Forks are evolution. They're justice. If the powers that be get too
hard to work with, or go too far down a bad road, they get forked, and
the software universe gets a little better.

Meanwhile, hostile forks made for malicious reasons simply fail, and
therefore do no harm.

In Debian's case, they just didn't listen. They were going full
speed ahead into systemd, no matter what anyone said. Heck, they dared
us to fork them. Then they got all offended when we did. You can't make
this stuff up, folks.

Debian's a big project. It's very hard to fork Debian. I think the fact
that it's getting done, and seemingly successfully, says volumes about
the merit of this fork.
 
SteveT

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