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Joey Hess Quits Debian

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the resignationd dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html

Joey Hess has apparently left Debian after 18 years, stating that the Debian Constitution is leading Debian in "very unhealthy directions".

 
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  • (Score: 1) by fritsd on Saturday November 08 2014, @05:04PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Saturday November 08 2014, @05:04PM (#114068) Journal

    I think your tin-foil-hat is screwed on more tightly than mine ;-) , but I have one additional item to contribute:

    * Hubris/shame about competence: if you have doubts about systemd, maybe it's because you're really *too stupid* to understand its magnificence.

    This is an illogical but very effective technique.

    To take myself as an example: I'm not a Debian Developer. I'm a long-term Debian user. I know that I'm far from the smartest or most competent Debian user.
    But I'm old enough to know that if a system is too complex for *me* to use on days that I'm not smart, it's probably also too complex to maintain for the average system admin.

    This leads directly to your point about "moving from simplicity to complexity": simplicity is a virtue for everyone that works with computers, even if you're smart enough to understand systemd ;-)

    Maybe I *am* too stupid to understand the benefits of systemd's assimilation efforts. It is very possible. But I don't want it installed, because it's going to be more difficult by the day to get rid of it.

    If you're too stupid to understand something, that still leaves the unresolved issue of whether that something is of benefit to you, or not. You only know that *you* can't figure it out on your own without help.

    A perfect example is the belief that voting computers are better than red pencil (cartoon in Dutch):

    http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/other/strip/ [wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl]

    I hope I'm making some sense here :-( I do have a bad cold atm.