SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.
SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03 2016, @12:50AM
You are being dramatic. I was baffled by the systemd decision as well and looked into the cause. What I found was a well-reasoned debate within the Debian community. There were good technical arguments for systemd and good ones against. It was put to a vote and the maintainers decided to use systemd. End of story. Some links to the debate are below (there are many others):
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00234.html [debian.org]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/05/msg00267.html [debian.org]
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/openrc [debian.org]
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd [debian.org]
That the debate seems healthy, technical, and reasoned continues to give me confidence in Debian even though I don't agree with the final decision (my own arguments are non-technical--mostly that I feel it is a departure from Unix tradition).
But your own assertions seem baseless.
As to the current discussion, the articles say nothing about PSI so who knows what that is about. But the maintainer, who supports this move https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3622 [glandium.org] seems to have no love for mozilla https://glandium.org/blog/?p=99 [glandium.org].