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Agree

The more I hear about "community" the more I roll my eyes

It can be great at doing the work but it is awful at setting direction, evolving with the times and focusing on what's important

Going by another story on the front page, I have my long list of criticism about systemd but the "get things done" attitude needed to be commended

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What an absolutely awful statement about one of the most successful community projects ever. Direction usually comes from the community and the maintainers just steer it. Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it

See how slow Wayland progress has been for an example of my grudges with that model of development

Almost two decades later, for unexplicable reasons, every new client not piggybacking on an eatablished toolkit or a new toolkit/compositor struggles with clipboard support, I shit you not.

> Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it

Maintainers do steer direction of development though. A lot comes from maintainer saying "we are not accepting XYZ".

Today we only have proper open source GPU drivers because people like David Airlie who stand for their principle against likes of Nvidia and AMD.

Perhaps you could fork the kernel and start a better community?

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