Eric S. Raymond se cansó, y van ...

After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my
limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me
into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which
an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system
unusable.

The proximate causes of this failure were (1) incompetent repository
maintenance, making any nontrivial upgrade certain to founder on a
failed dependency, and (2) the fact that rpm is not statically linked
-- so it's possible to inadvertently remove a shared library it
depends on and be unrecoverably screwed. But the underlying problems
run much deeper.

Over the last five years, I've watched Red Hat/Fedora throw away what
was at one time a near-unassailable lead in technical prowess, market
share and community prestige. The blunders have been legion on both
technical and political levels. They have included, but were not
limited to:

* Chronic governance problems.

* Persistent failure to maintain key repositories in a sane,
consistent state from which upgrades might actually be possible.

* A murky, poorly-documented, over-complex submission process.

* Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate -- then adding
another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum.

* Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.

* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with
any attitude other than blank denial.

In retrospect, I should probably have cut my losses years ago. But I
had so much history with Red-Hat/Fedora, and had invested so much effort in
trying to fix the problems, that it was hard to even imagine
breaking away.

If I thought the state of Fedora were actually improving, I might hang
in there. But it isn't. I've been on the fedora-devel list for
years, and the trend is clear. The culture of the project's core
group has become steadily more unhealthy, more inward-looking, more
insistent on narrow "free software" ideological purity, and more
disconnected from the technical and evangelical challenges that must
be met to make Linux a world-changing success that liberates a
majority of computer users.
.....

En PL lo veniamos comentanto hace rato, pero Eric es Eric y, si después de ésta dura declaración no reaccionan,,. no sé..

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-d...01006.html

Lo que "per se" no esta ni bien ni mal... Se puede decir que narrow "free software" ideological purity
es una caracteristica de Debian, sin ir mas lejos!
Nomas que Eric lo hace aparecer como malo, dado el contexto en que lo incluye.
Dicho de otra forma, lleva agua para su molino.
Lo que a mi me sorprede es lo ultra-retoricos que llegan a ser aquellos que se oponen al retoricismo.