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Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.
The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 24 2014, @04:11PM
the method of delivery is "mixed with feces and thrown at your face"
This will go down in internet history as the strangest way to describe "E E E via submarine patents" that I've ever seen.
Think about it... is there a better rational reason for really weird and illogical technical decisions being made that are being pushed via expenditure of enormous amounts of political capital (which takes time and money)? One unanswered question is who's paying to destroy linux...
(Score: 1) by quixote on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:14PM
The money angle hadn't occurred to me earlier. But now that you mention it ... it does make creepy sense.
Move away from simple, text-based logs, modular implementation toward opaque interdigitated total interdependence, and, yes, I could see submarine patents suddenly wreaking havoc.
And just recently I saw in the financial news that Novell, who'd been bought by Attachmate a few years back, has now been bought by Micro Focus. Somewhere in there I remember something about a consortium that includes Microsoft. Although, to be honest, the GOOG has been much more of a destructive parasite on Linux than even Microsoft.
Not that I wear a tin foil hat or anything.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 24 2014, @09:41PM
Doesn't even have to be evil empire totally destroys linux, just some jerk of a patent troll figuring.. hmm... how about I ask for $1 for every linux distro cd/dvd ever made or downloaded? That's pretty cheap compared to microsoft windows or osx licensing but a pretty good haul for a patent troll...
Or, Debian isn't under corporate enough control, whats a good way to destroy Debian so the only linux out there is corporate linux, maybe with TPM/big brother inside DRM control by the NSA... Hmm license something for $1/yr that wouldn't meet DFSG... so they can give up on the DFSG or go under... Hmm.
Or just plain old FUD. You know who (voldemort?) didn't get too far claiming "unix" source code in linux, but you know who does stupid things like monolithic designs with registries and binary logging and ... Even if you lose in court, even if you know its a lost cause, you can FUD FUD FUD for many years... This isn't tinfoil hat, its a reasonable assessment of "round 2" of an ongoing fight. If you know who doesn't attack on this angle, what is wrong with them? It seems obvious.