Re: There is no choice
On Monday 22 September 2014 18:03:20 Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > On 9/22/2014 10:55 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > >> Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues
> > >> here. And shutting people up is not going to make the problem go away.
> > >> It will, however, make users go away. I, for one, am looking at
> > >> other systems now. And I think it is highly likely this path will
> > >> force another fork of Debian, as occurred when Ubuntu forked.
> > >
> > > Oh Please! There are plenty of Debian derivatives. No doubt there will
> > > always be derivatives, but your insinuation that these derivatives
> > > occur because of problems within Debian, is incorrect. Please stop
> > > spreading FUD!
> >
> > And why are there derivatives? Because someone didn't like something
> > about Debian. To them there was a problem.
>
> Have you got any link to back this up. My understanding is that someone
> creates a derivative because Debian is a good starting point - someone
> has already done all the hard work -- all the derivatives have to do is
> a few config changes add some eye candy and voila! :) OK, it may not be
> that simple but hopefully you get my point.
Mark Shuttleworth created Ubuntu because he wanted to give away a free linux
system to spread the use of Linux. He used Debian because he _did_ like it,
not because he didn't.
Lisi
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