Posted Nov 28, 2012 13:47 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: GNU Guix launches by hummassa
Parent article: GNU Guix launches
You made my point much more concisely than I managed to do. :-)
Again, it's a matter of whether one can concede a degree of control in order to maintain a degree of supervision, or whether people will eventually feel obliged to break out and go to external entities for the goodies, leading to all sorts of recriminations afterwards (especially if something went wrong).