On Monday, May 27, 2013 11:13:40 Dario Freddi wrote: > Such a choice has only one possible outcome: distributions and users > patching the plasmoid for restoring the functionality, hidden or not, > resulting in harder bug triaging and higher chances for breakage.
the hostage situation. no thanks. there is no point in doing any design or having any thing resembling a plan if a minority group gets to outvote that vision with the threat of patches. free software allows modification. that's *awesome*. so people who disagree can modify. when you modify, you take on a certain amount of responsibility. there is no way to 'fix' that feature of freedom in free software. which means one either adopts a "no design, just the chaos of all the patches" approach or one accepts that some will make modifications that you disagree with downstream while preserving a design that makes sense and works for those who do not do so. so, no, this is not a reason (let alone a good one) for doing anything differently. -- Aaron J. Seigo
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