No company behind it, the DSC/DFSG has been around for around 30 years now, its operated through the non-profit SPI for just as long, and important to note it was Bruce Perens who made the first draft of the DSC.
I think the drama in Debian has historically been more on the geekery side than anything else, and should continue to be the case for a looooong time.
There’s a package in Debian called “fortune-mod” that contains “offensive jokes” - racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. They refused to remove it because free speech or whatever.
If the package is not malware, I actually would prefer the repo maintainers fight to keep it there. I do not want the software repo to be censored. If I don’t like a piece of software, I can avoid using it.
The package is not shipped with Debian. The package is not shown to a user anywhere in Debian. A user has to go out of their way to acquire the package.
I thought this was hilarious. I digged into this. I agree with the author. Honestly if one doesn’t like the quote generated, one can generate a new quote and move on. Author addressed this years ago here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fortune-mod/-/raw/master/Offensive
Then again, I’m sure someone made an offensive free version of this.
… fingers crossed someone doesn’t bring up some shit about Debian …
No company behind it, the DSC/DFSG has been around for around 30 years now, its operated through the non-profit SPI for just as long, and important to note it was Bruce Perens who made the first draft of the DSC.
I think the drama in Debian has historically been more on the geekery side than anything else, and should continue to be the case for a looooong time.
This is not as bad, but…
There’s a package in Debian called “fortune-mod” that contains “offensive jokes” - racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. They refused to remove it because free speech or whatever.
If the package is not malware, I actually would prefer the repo maintainers fight to keep it there. I do not want the software repo to be censored. If I don’t like a piece of software, I can avoid using it.
The package is not shipped with Debian. The package is not shown to a user anywhere in Debian. A user has to go out of their way to acquire the package.
I thought this was hilarious. I digged into this. I agree with the author. Honestly if one doesn’t like the quote generated, one can generate a new quote and move on. Author addressed this years ago here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fortune-mod/-/raw/master/Offensive
Then again, I’m sure someone made an offensive free version of this.