[ale] Are the kernel developers a-holes? (was: Debian fork thoughts?)

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8

I was there for this Q&A with Linus

On 03.12.2014 13:07, James Sumners wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org
> [1]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:50:50AM -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>> > But Im going to side with the kernel developers in regard to
>> systemd. The
>> > developers of systemd have a history of dumping projects no one
>> asked for
>> > on the community and then not supporting them,
>>
>> [citation needed]
>>
>>  * A list of these "dumped" projects
>>  * A list of these "unsupported" projects
>
>>> ignoring valid bug reports,
>>
>> [citation needed]
>>
>> (I suspect there is considerable disagreement what constitutes
>> "validity")
>>
>> > or just plain abandoning them.
>>
>> [citation needed]
>>
>> Are you seriously saying that once someone writes some software,
>> they are forever obliged to continue to support it?
>>
>> > But they dont do most of that before theyve already managed to
>> get
>> > the project to be a major dependency of other projects.
>
> Uh, hello, systemd and pulseaudio? GNOME? Do these ring a bell?
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> Links:
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> [1] mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org
> [2] https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU
> [3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935
> [4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTY1MzA
> [5] http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/