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Devuan and I got off to a bad start. The first link I clicked to their site was flagged by Firefox as possibly malicious. Continuing to their home page brought me to what would have been considered campy even in the 90s. I suspected a scam, or at least rank amateurism, and figured a short life for the project.
They recently released an "update on the progress of the Devuan.org," and I took a second look, especially at their finances.
The finances of the Devuan project are administered by the Dyne.org foundation, an international organization based in Amsterdam.
Dyne.org commits to financial transparency and will publish financial reports for this project, keeping them updated every year.
Their current financial report for 2014 is available as a pdf download.
Surprisingly, with all the anti-systemd trolling out there that they could cash in on, they're instead taking the high road.
We must not become acquainted to the fact that systemd discussions are swarmed by trolls fostering aggressive behaviour and personalized attacks of sorts. With the Devuan project and its early Debianfork declaration we did our best to avoid such dynamics, to bring forward a constructive discussion and action plan to respond to the systemd avalanche with technical analyses and solutions.
We kindly ask the community gathering around Devuan to take us seriously on this and avoid aggressive behaviour. Everyone should use extra attention when engaging criticism and in any case avoid any personalization, but stick to facts.
Their open professionalism is impressive. We could be seeing the birth of the next major player in Linux.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by sce7mjm on Wednesday December 24 2014, @09:20AM
Indeed I don't do a lot of website design but some hosting...
When I get asked to design or build a site on the cheap, before all the fancy features they want creep in, I make them read this: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ [motherfuckingwebsite.com] Probably not safe for work...
I either saw it linked on soylentnews or slashdot but it sums up a lot of my feelings.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 24 2014, @12:25PM
Fabrice Bellard's Home Page [bellard.org]
In case you don't know who Bellard is, he is a very famous computer programmer who has made seminal important contributions to the world of computing.
At his homepage, you will also see a link titled "Best Viewed With Any Browser"; click on it and go to that site, it's a very informative read which goes into much technical detail about important web design concepts which help to keep the internet free open and accessible to everyone, irrespective of current trends and fashions.