On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:55:40PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 09:37:27AM -0500, Shayan Akbar wrote: > > Hello Debian folks, > > > > As someone who depends on the Debian project a lot in my daily life, I > > cannot seem to let this idea go... Can the linux project fall? > > > > How does the project maintain itself against the man's intrinsic need to > > control and own? > > > > How many years can it stay strong and stay a free operating system > > benefiting billions? > > We are doing well. The RPM world is collapsing [...] Wow. Just wow. Did you know that Redhat is more or less single-handedly financing GCC and libc since... like ever? > [...] SuSE is quite independent and, while small, does You count SuSE to the Redhat world just because at some point in their past they adopted RPM? A distro is more than its package manager. And oh, they are feeding more than one kernel developer. Would you like a world where every Linux kernel developer is in the belly of some big corp the likes of IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Intel et al? > The popcorn world: Gentoo, Slack, Arch, Alpine -- they do produce quite a > bit of innovation that _is_ relevant, but as for number of users -- naah, > they hardly count. [...] Again: wow. Just wow. As Charles put it in another thread, the world (and as a part of it, the Debian world!) would be much poorer without Arch's "popcorn", most probably without the others, too -- just my little brain is too limited to provide concrete examples for each and every one. Thing is, Debian is living in a wonderful environment and "steals" right and left (and is "stolen from"), courtesy of the free software idea. And we're all richer for that! > What we do suffer though, is insane politics. This is what makes Debian what it is: it's one of the differences to the other distros. Your standpoint is... strange. Cheers -- t
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