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Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events

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Re: Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently his gf brought their daughters away from him, and he had to spend some time fighting in court. This struck on me because I have a friend in the same situation, and he is desperate to the point we fear for him to go suicidal. Using kids as a weapon against the ex partner is just evil. Now, unless Juan is violent to them, forcing the daughters not to contact or see him, especially if they suddenly become hos…

This whole thing may have ignited when one of the maintainers put an entry in the fortunes file that made fun of that: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/c3b796aca... Smells to me like they deliberately set him off so they'd have an excuse to stage a coup. Could be wrong, but this distro looks like it's maintained by a den of vipers and I'm sure as hell not going near it.

Yes, from what I've seen I'm not too impressed with the dev who made that commit, but really, now you're going to generalize that and call the entire group of maintainers a "den of vipers"? Who do you think reverted that commit? (Hint: probably somebody with a commit bit.)

Re: Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events

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The beauty of open source is that if you find a project's maintainers lacking in some way, you can always fork the project. When the fork becomes more popular, it can lead to changes in the original.

Well, here the (original) maintainer is the one doing the forking, so there's a bit of a twist.
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