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On 26/03/2020 12:42, Michael Everitt wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Michael. But now I am getting more worried than ever about the future of FOSS. You are telling me that the whole philosophy is changing, for the worse. And we are going to finish with the old "take it or leave it" system. My only hope is that some of the smaller groups, like Palemoon, will be able to carry on and give us some choice.So yeah, actually on this one, I'm totally with you, Neil - FOSS developers are getting selfish and arrogant, and forgetting their roots. It started with SystemD and Poettring, and it's spreading everywhere else with the Rust and Go ecosystems, driven hard by the Big Boys in the game, and their millions of dollars in backing. This isn't really good for the ecosystem all, and it's killing those people who retain the original Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing Well" and those with a modicum of 'doing it properly' and 'testing thoroughly' which ought to have become a lot /easier/ with CI & CD tooling available. Instead, everyone's taking the shortcuts and the easy route, and we end up with the mess that is OSS at the present time. I hope the tide will change, but with the current sea of 'CADT' (look it up) I am not very hopeful. *raises a glass to Neil* this one's on me, bud.
And yes, I did look up CADT. Hope is fading, Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq