[cwyers]

From the debianfork.org page, which this is apparently mocking:

"Why don't you do that yourselves? We are excluded from voting on the issue: only few of us have the time and patience to interact with Debian on a voluntary basis."

If you don't have the time and patience to contribute to a project like Debian, how are you planning to muster up the time and patience to run a full-on FORK of Debian?

[dsr_]

Short answer, because I've said it before: You can't vote on Debian issues without becoming a Debian Developer; that title requires a multistep process that takes between months and years. Debian publishes the stats at nm.debian.org, and there is general agreement that the length of the process is a problem, but not on how to solve it.

[cwyers]

I don't doubt that there's a barrier there, and it could possibly (probably?) made easier to overcome. But it still strikes me as a smaller barrier than that of having to maintain a full-fledged fork, especially one that focuses on a low-level dependency like systemd, rather than focusing on higher-level stuff like the desktop environment.

[Vendan]

from the page:

[edit/clarification] Since this seems to be one of the most prominent critiques, we'd like to clarify this point. With lack of time and patience we refer to our possibility to be involved in a complex bureaucratic system like the one governing Debian. While we respect this way of working, we think that our time is better invested in new directions, also according to our expertise.