Wow, there are some people out there really freaking out about slop-free forks.
Guess what?
**YOU don't get to tell people how to do their activism!**
I'll download and compile/install whatever the fuck I want!
I'll also support any forks, or fork myself, whenever the fuck I want!
Sorry to be this blunt, but I CANNOT ABIDE self-appointed thought police telling me what is or is not slop or what projects are or are not viable.
Libre software is *freedom*. Period. End of story.
I don't have control over *proprietary* software or web services running on computer systems I don't own.
You know what I *do* have *full* control over?
THE LIBRE SOFTWARE I EXECUTE ON MY OWN DAMN OPERATING SYSTEM.
Isn't this what ~40 years of activism has been all about? Isn't this why we *have* libre software in the first place? Why the fuckity fuck do we even have open source software licenses, if not for a time such as this?!?!
P.S. Before someone might accuse me of just being some rando jerk on the Internet…OK sure, perhaps I am. 😅
But I'm also a software maintainer myself and have years of experience in open source governance. Would I be happy if someone forked one of the projects I work on because they don't like the state of things there, or even me as a person? Probably not.
*But it's totally within their rights to do so.* More power to 'em if that's their jam.
Freedom.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)