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by shevy-java 23 days ago
I can not evaluate the claims made, but even if I am lenient and assume it is all true, to me it is still strange how a distribution becomes so dependent on a single person or provider. I can't help but wonder how other distributions would have handled that; Gentoo would probably not have ended in a similar situation, debian probably neither.

And mind you - that's only if I evaluate the claims made at face value. I also can't help but feel that there are some missing steps here. Sure, IRC roid-raging happened in the past, see #freenode, and people are strange in general, but even then it really reads oddly to me, almost as if "I trusted that scammer from Nigeria with my money because the emails were so convincing".