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Once Linux dies, there will be no alternative. Tech monopolies won long before the war began, and Zig Forums is coming to terms with this fact.
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Carson Jones
Adrian Jones
tl;dr the jews won.
What the fuck Zig Forums, you actually though you could fight this shit?
Aaron Anderson
They don't even care about the desktop anymore. They know it and Windows is a dead end. They want "cloud" and subscription webapps like Google. Why keep developing Windows Server when they can just take and use Linux like the other big players? Google, Amazon, Facebook, government, etc all run linux on their back end.
CoC isn't a play to kill linux. Its a play to take control over it.
RedHat is basically just a shell company. If you become influential in the Linux community you get hired by one of the above mentioned companies or RedHat. Then your under control. Your much less likely to protest something if it means your job.
Xavier Butler
Reconfirmed: There is no way around the CoC. There are no viable alternatives so there's nowhere to run. Linux, and FOSS as a whole, is on its last legs. Your only choice will be SaaS apps for the rest of your life.
Jose Martinez
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Jaxson Moore
Doesn't matter either way. See and . Either Linux dies or is controlled. Nobody is going to bother with alternatives.
Nathaniel Edwards
Speak for yourself please, open source is all about going to/building alternatives if there is some aspect of a program you don't like. The linux kernel is a tough program to find alternatives for, but anyone can fork it and even take patches from upstream. The question is can people discern good code from bad, how much of the kernel code can be viewed as "controlled". Backporting bug/security fixes if a certain old kernel version can be viewed as "good" is an viable option. Linux is linux because people use it, if I made a fork and gained more users which is the real linux? Thinking about linux as a single path might prevent people from realizing the free codes nature.
Nathan Allen
What is with all this blatant blackpill faggotry?
Oliver Butler
This whole situation reminds me of firefox quantum, but there is an important difference. Lots of people had issues with a complete overhaul of the well known firefox, not to mention the funding of riseup and sjw shit. Many said forking would be a viable option, but there was the problem of developers. Mozillas devs who will add new specs and fix security issues all went to work on the quantum build. Forking in this situation is difficult because the code fundamentally changed. The patches which paid devs work hard on will only apply to the new version. This time all the pieces are here, the kernel hasn't been fundamentally changed. All that changed was some bullshit gatekeeping on who is allowed to contribute. This means a fork can take the good code that the real devs work hard on as well as allow anyone else to contribute free of any "code of conduct". It can be just as good if not better. Maybe now is the best time to fork and be free of the redhat/microsoft/glowinthedark cartel. We were always free to do so, but now there is a chance of attracting real linux devs/users to the fork.
Seems to be a thing lately.
Noah Moore
We could also work on porting drivers to openbsd/netbsd. OpenBSD is pretty comfy but if you aren't on a targeted platform you can expect a good portion of your hardware features to simply not work, and even on targeted platforms you might not get video acceleration. NetBSD is a little better in that regard, but not all platforms get the same attention. For your regular i386 and AMD64 desktops and laptops with intel initigrated graphics, you won't have many problems though.
I'm really wishing i had started learning C a decade ago instead of few months ago and tried the BSDs before this happened. I feel like I've been thrust onto a battle with a weapon i don't know how to use, a battle plan i don't fully understand, and the only thing I'm moderately sure of is which direction i should be facing.