Message from @scaryred24
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right but in terms of damage caused, a fucked patch isnt as bad as y'all are making it out to be. It happens all the time
it's unfortunate, but it's very surmountable
and then the question is: does a linux fork happen, or does mainline linux get better commits
okay in the short term, you would want to stick with what works the best for the entire scene
in the long term, when the fork gets better, you adopt that
that depends on who you're talking about, but sure
if you want to be an early adopter and use the fork as soon as it comes out, thats fine and all
but if you want stability or just want to run a server, you really dont want this
as linux has a stronger presence in the enterprise industry, it would seem to mater there
this coc change affects the home, non-commercial users
give it a few years
it will then affect those who runs servers
the CoC affects everything really
>important contributor hates CoC
>works on fork instead
>fork now has important changes and no CoC
>company now has to choose between CoC version and version with important changes
well the coc means nothing if you dont actively contribute to the scene
if you are paranoid, then sure it would
they are actively contributing, just not to that branch
but just wait until people start pulling their code out of the kernel
like look at LibreOffice/OpenOffice
OpenOffice creator was a dick, so they just forked it. Done
Look at Nexuiz, where the rights holder decided to go commercial. They changed the name and some assets. Done
its not like the entire backend to the os
no, but it's the same process
do bare im mind that not all open source projects arent treated equally
Sure, but they adhere to the same legal standards as long as they follow the same license
or similar
you can mix and match them
but dont like release that to the public
its one way or the other
well the ways in which they can be mixed is a little more complicated
unless you got the rights to do so and they sign off on it
Like you couldnt just take Xonotic and go "lol it's paid now", nor can you feasibly change the license to say "Only weebs can contribute and request source" without consulting the other people who contributed
but even if that *does* happen, everything up until 10.fucked edition works fine
or at least as well as it ever did
and you just use that until shit gets sorted
you know what i find very interesting about all of this?
only those that are with a rolling release is currently affected by this
semi-rolling arent going to be affected for at least 6 months from now
then you got the ubuntu way of rolling out updates which if you are a lts user, it can take upmost of 2 years before you see that catastrophic affect
anyways im not too worried about it now but im quite concerned about our future