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I don't think that they care(d) much about "the open source community". And why do you think forking causes damage to the open source community? It helps resolve conflicts of interest.



I know they didnt care (there wasnt any significant OS community at the time) and even if they did its not reason to remove a core feature of like fork, because someone might abuse the idea.

It was a kind of pun to state my disaproval to level of fragmentation the linux community has gotten into.

Okay this SystemD saga might or might be AS important as some people tend to think. But fragmenting the community so much and having people working to 10 different, unstable solutions instead of 3 stable ones, its a waste of resources IMHO.


Indeed. Reducing fragmentation is one of the reasons many distribution maintainers liked systemd, since it replaces tons of special snowflake tooling that every distro reimplemented differently with one common upstream (eg. set the hostname, configure binary formats, where to store the OS release name, etc.)




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