Debian and the sirens

What happened

Thirty years ago I became a Debian developer. Twelve years ago I left the project. I left because it seemed that the Debian ship had become too slow to turn, too barnacled with a series of individually OK decisions that each added a little bit of friction and a little less flexability. That made Debian strongly what it is, but prevented it from fruitfully exploring the vast possibility space of what it could be.

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