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

okay thats fine

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

I think if people want a solution to this problem it wouldnt be hard for them to produce one

unless like.. 100% of contributors want the CoC and all other associated changes

not all of them would want it