On 2014-08-23, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
The suggestion you made to switch to commercial system [sorry I brought your suggestion one step further in the same direction, oh I'm really tricky person] is quite in line with what commercial vendors would like to happen to free (as free beer) competitive software: users, feel this free software is as nasty as our commercial alternative is.
I don't think that's precisely the issue. The issue (to me anyway) is that people are complaining about free software *whose explicitly stated goal is to remain as closely as possible to the commercial upstream*. If this were a base distro like Debian or Slackware, then people could legitimately complain that Debian was moving to systemd, because the Debian maintainers made that decision. The CentOS maintainers did not!
So it's not really about free vs. nonfree, it's about who the deciders are.
Since I mentioned it, Slackware might be a reasonable compromise for those of you who prefer a more ''purist'' (whatever that means) environment but don't want to completely break away from linux. When I was an active Slackware user I heard the comparison that Slackware was the most *BSD-like of the linux distros.
--keith