This is debatable. The default workflow requires access to crates.io, and it is pretty hard to not use crates.io.
Even with using crates from crates.io.
As someone who uses a source-based distro I hate language package managers. They always end up inferior to a distro package manager and create extra work for everyone, including the language developers, who tolerate it because it is in their favorite language.
> Linux is not "forcing adoption of HDCP" (it's just something Linux has a driver for)
What they actually said in the article:
> Historically, some features began as optional ones until they reached total functionality. Then they became forced and difficult to patch out. Even if this does not happen in the case of HDCP, we remain cautious about such implementations.
> Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP.
(Which linked to a patch adding driver support for handling HDCP, with absolutely no possibility of it somehow being forced.)
Regarding the quote from that interview: sure, and there's also no guarantee that the Linux kernel won't drop support for every architecture except SPARC, except of course for all the people involved not putting up with it. In what possible universe would Linux developers decide it was a good idea to mandate HDCP? It's completely unfounded and unsupported hyperbole and fearmongering, without even a hint of potential truth.
It's also roughly consistent with what I'd expect from someone who thinks that gettext daring to have support for Java and C# format strings is a horrific problem that should be ripped out by the roots.
There were specific reasons for that: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
Mozilla markets Firefox as ‘the only browser made for people, not profit’. But they’ve done the exact opposite time and time again. Virtually the single most prominent UI element, the omnibar, has been sold out to the single largest threat to the open web, the gatekeeper to the entire internet to the vast majority of its users. I don’t want to spend all day railing against Mozilla, as easily as I could, but I can easily find a couple other examples off the top of my head. The Mr. Robot scandal is another example of selling out and (not necessarily directly harming but very significantly) alienating users. And it’s been a few years since I’ve used FF as my main browser but I still remember every time I installed it on a new device going into settings and changing default after default to revert it back from a profit-seeking product to a personal tool, disabling telemetry, etc.
1: Although it does make a difference to me. I’d use pre-Chromium Edge if it was FLOSS, on my OS, and let me use Pentadactyl. The excuses for XUL’s removal — security, stability, and speed — don’t concern me: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo... seems to claim it would allow someone to somehow steal my passwords. I’ve been using Palemoon for years and I don’t have any weird activity on any of my accounts, and I keep my browser sandboxed (something Firefox should do better by default, one way it’s behind Chromium) so I don’t have any other security worries. I have no stability or speed issues, and maintainability seems like a non-issue given that an apparently one-man main team keeps Palemoon running.
Where? I was curious as there has been no upstream improvements. And there are no new code in what I assume is their upstream repository?
It's a rant by an obscure one-developer distribution that formerly used the Linux kernel. Some people are never happy no matter what you do, and if you make the mistake of treating their rants as useful feedback, you get a list of 30 more demands before they'd consider gracing your little project with the honor of their all-important usage again.