On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <[email protected]> wrote:
> I say seemed, however, because at least in the worst cases the pattern > of behaviour were more suggestive of a troll trying to stir up > controversy for its own sake (or for some other reason) rather than > somebody honestly concerned with systemd, and that surely helped muddle > things further. yyeah this is the most unfortunate / fortunate aspect of what happened. a massive proportion of people in the software libre community (particularly debian) knew that something felt... wrong... but were completely ill-equipped to *both* identify it *and* express it. where the primary focus was on engineering, where you *absolutely must* be capable of expressing precisely and exactly what is wrong, a "this doesn't feel right" feeling would *of course* be outright rejected with "please provide evidence / proof". not only that but people would have felt totally uncomfortable expressing their true views and feelings (even if they truly had a way to express them without causing upset / offense / whatever). "i feel totally betrayed by your democratic majority-vote-style decision [which e.g. forces me to spend hundreds of hours converting live-running systems to a new distro]" is not something that can be bug-fixed. so yes, the end-result, elena, would have been what you witnessed. why describe this as "fortunate"? because it identifies a flaw within the software libre community that, one might hope, everyone can learn from. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
