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Why is Debian the way it is?
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Give the mailing list archives of the time some reading, the decision was definitely not consensual. I'm glad gentoo, slackware and, later devuan did not take the easy way out. Being few (their site lists ~1100) as an argument, well.. dunno, fairly understandable maybe.
What do you mean by compromised?
Where do I find the archives? That would be interesting to read.
By compromised I mean that somehow some corporate entity started dictating their decisions, decisions not in favour of Libre principles and against the community
https://lists.debian.org/ i think they changed in Jessie.
Thanks 👍