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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:35:37 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> There was no reason why you had to. You could easily have created
> your own distro without any of his code in it, if you wanted to. Or
> become an aficionado of one of the existing distros that did exactly
> that.

Have done - been running Devuan since 2016.

> Open Source is all about choice. If you can=E2=80=99t stand the thought of
> people making different choices from you, you know what you can do.

The fact that people are free to make stupid choices does not mean that
other people aren't allowed to call out stupidity where they see it.