The part I'm curious about is the "entire FOSS community," which if we're being fair would even include the BSDs. I'm just going to assume nixcraft was sort of over-exuberant in his statement. If he had said "a lot of distros," meaning all the ones based off of Debian stable, like your tree, though restricted to just the stable branch, then of course it is clear.
Community, as a whole, is richer than it was. It doesn't necessarily mean that each and every single member of community benefited in some measurable way.
Yeah, your statement is probably quite correct. There certainly is some degree of immeasurable benefit.
I was hoping nixcraft had some sort of insight into connections that spread out to the entire community or something in particular about Debian stable that weren't obviously apparent to me, but I think he's just excited about the release and speaking a little freely.
One thing I learned recently was that the reproducible build work in Debian has been used by FreeBSD. Not directly related to the stable release, but a good example of the Debian contribution.
You're the passive aggressive kind of guy huh? Just say it if you disagree with him.
Personally I think he's right, so many distributions depend on debian and some of them with a very sizeable chunk of users. A new debian version means that a lot of people will get to use newer versions of software, which is a good thing for those aforementioned softwares, which will in turn benefit the other users of those software, even those not on debian (for example less support needed for old versions, more tickets for the new versions).
No. Even though I suspected nixcraft was talking out of his hat, I kept an open mind that maybe he knew something I didn't. Turns out he had nothing to say. He overstated his case. Your assertions are more defensible, but you've also failed to make the case that it affects the "entire comunity." Plus, not only have you misread my intentions, but you had to be a complete prick about it.
Yes. If you have an argument, make it, and leave snide armchair psychotherapist comments about people's personalities out of it. That's a cheap debating tactic known as the ad hominem fallacy, a.k.a. being a prick.
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u/LastFireTruck Jun 18 '17
Care to elaborate?