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I feel like this is kinda sorta to be expected. Every time someone actively approaches you with an offer to spend their real energy and lifetime on your thing, It's almost always about leverage in some way. At least if there is actual work attached to it. Money alone might be paid by people that just have too much of it or want to feel better about something. But if they actively involve themselves to a degree that g…
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Me too. It was my first Linux back in 2003 and I was immediately hooked. Back then codecs weren't as much of an issue as they were in the late 2000s to early 2010s so everything worked out of the box and the performance on Pentium 4 with 128 MB RAM was phenomenal compared to Windows XP. I'm so glad the project is still around.
Their 2007 version forced us to buy a codec pack when playing MP3s, MP3 was patented so open source implementations were legally grey.
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> It just sounds like the Mandriva maintainers are trusting and good folk who may be overworked running an open source project and that led to a bad apple entering the bunch. It's hard for me to be mad in that kind of situation. It's hard to be mad, but people in FLOSS need to start taking this sort of cautionary tale to heart, particularly when it comes to Linux distros. If you don't have a good way to sustain maint…
People don't need to do anything when they are volunteering their free time - they can run a distro that is not up to your standards if they want to.
It's not the 00s anymore. You are not special if you can post code that compiles to a central repository where people can duplicate and modify it. There are entire colleges in most developed nations that have 18-year-olds who can do the same thing now. The key to being taken seriously is figuring out how to do that sustainably and responsibly.
https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/statement-regarding-attempt...
Shameful.
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People don't need to do anything when they are volunteering their free time - they can run a distro that is not up to your standards if they want to.
Then I don't want to hear sob stories about how someone nuked half of the public repo, or how someone managed to put a backdoor in some low-level dependency that half of the world's servers rely on. I also don't want them to expect to be taken seriously, either. It's not the 00s anymore. You are not special if you can post code that compiles to a central repository where people can duplicate and modify it. There are…