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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Go Linux
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Combatting revisionist history
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:11:09PM -0800, Go Linux wrote:
> This excellent analysis of the systemd debacle was just posted over on FDN. Should be required reading IMO. Enjoy!
>
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=570371
>


I personally think that the essence of that nice post is in the very
last quote:

"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly."

The rest is just history, and as always happens to history it is and
will be manipulated, rearranged, edulcorated, simmered and served in
several possible fashions, styles and shapes, according to the taste
of the narrator.

My major regret is that in the end the immense decisional
infrastructure of Debian, which I respected for years as an example of
bottom-up democracy, was not able to *decide* on such a delicate and
fundamental issue, which in fact was not just technical but
phylosophical (and if you call the result of the GR a "decision" then
we have very different views about what "deciding" means).

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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