[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 15:35 -0400, A. Zimmer wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:26:35 -0400
> Gregory Czerniak <gregczrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are logical tensions between advocating for choice and trying to
> > dictate what a loosely-federated group of developers (some organized as
> > democracies of varying levels of complexity) should or shouldn't do.  There
> > are also tensions between advocating for freedom and saying that the people
> > in freedesktop.org and Red Hat should be denied their freedom to associate.
> Absolute nonsense.  We all know damn well what open source programmers
> should do.
> Open source is not about profit.  Open source is not about ideology.
> Open source is about producing applications that serve all of the people
> all of the time.  

You fundamentally misunderstand what Open Source is.  Take a breath and
read the GPL; there is no text about "producing applications" or any
reference to whom they serve.  There is only code, and how it is
handled.