This one time, at band camp, Thorsten Glaser said: > Matthias Urlichs <matthias <at> urlichs.de> writes: > > > Care to tell us why? Other than "ugh, it's written by Lennart"?? > > The “why” does not matter. Users do not have to justify why they > need to use something. I worked in for company that had a strict > “no PHP” policy once. I have encountered other more or less weird > scenarios in the “enterprise” (bah, this sounds like a four-letter > word) world about having to use something, or do something, despite > it being nōn-free, while otherwise embracing OSS. (We had a case of > someone wanting to put proprietary software they have to use inside > a .deb so it can be easilier managed and integrated well with Debian > and removed cleanly, recently, on some mailing list.) Excellent. I'm sure that if they can create a deb, they can install sysvinit, or runit, or some BSD, or whatever else they want. A default is only a default, after all. I can't argue against nebulous "lots of people are scared" arguments. Lots of people are always scared about something, and we can't do anything to make them less scared except perhaps give them a glass of warm milk and a nice bedtime story. Can we stick to technical arguments? If the only argument to make is "my sister's uncle's cousin knows a guy who has a friend who runs a lot of machines and might leave Debian because systemd makes him so sad", please don't bother. The plural of anecdote is still not data. > Let me quote: > > 4. Our priorities are our users and free software [...] Reducto ad DFSGum. Almost but not quite as much fun as Reducto ad Hitlerum. > So stop this already! You take the words out of my mouth. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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