Bug#727708: On diversity
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 16:01 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The "universal operating system"
> phrase is a slogan.
Sure it is, but that slogan actually stands for some important
principles in the open source world... like not to "force" stuff upon
users... and allowing many different things to happily co-exist.
Open source is also a lot about freedom (not only that of developers but
also that of users)
Now looking at the GNOME-background,... there are surely people who'd
say that these folks have sometimes forgotten a bit those ideals.
Anyway... I guess that's off topic to this discussion (sorry for
that)... except perhaps that part,... that neither choice for an
init-system should restrict the freedom of others (k/freebsd, hurd, the
guys who like another init-system more) more than absolutely necessary.
Cheers,
Chris.
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