On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Garrett mjg@redhat.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
Remember, opensource is about giving people a choice, not limiting
people's
choices.
You have many choices. The choices include:
*) Adding an xorg.conf fragment that re-enables zapping *) Filing a bug against the server and, through rational argument, convincing the upstream maintainers to revert this *) The above, but for the Fedora maintainers *) Using a locally patched package *) Forking the entirity of Fedora *) Describing the use cases that require hitting ctrl+alt+backspace and coming up with fixes that don't involve killing the entire user session *) Switching to Windows *) Switching to MacOS *) Becoming a hermit and not touching a computer ever again
And dozens more. Changing a boolean default does not limit choice. The only change is that you now have the choice of enabling zapping rather than the choice of disabling it.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
This reply is ludicrous. Might as well ship F12 without Gnome, you can simply install it if you want......
The point is, a few protested and got the change submitted. Never mind the thousands that still want it.