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Michael Was Here
Personal blog · michaelwashere.net/postsystemsculture
Michael Was Here is a personal blog at michaelwashere.net about systems and culture. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an account of the 2018 Slackware takeover, in which the distro's founder was ousted from his own project. Commenters use it as a source on that dispute.
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What Hacker News says?
While the problem wasn’t unique, the hostile takeover of the project was. The honorable and legal course of action would be to fork. The owner had built the distro single-handed over ten years, and GitHub and Freenode helped to eject him from his own project, over his eventual strenuous objections. https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/ Even that link doesn’t give a balanced story. You have to track…
Comment linking /post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/
on “Slackware 15.0”Submitted Void Linux: Into the Void as a story · 172 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eternal September of the Corporate Open Source Project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Having a Good Frequency at VCFMW21 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Insecurity Through Mandates as a story · 2 points
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