&gt; Debian are a political effort first and a technical project second.<p>And that may well be what is wrong with the Linux ecosystem today. I keep seeing formerly technical &quot;projects&quot; go social over and over and over, with the inevitable result that it turns political and gets derailed from its technical efforts.<p>This in large part because going social attracts people that end up using the name and reputation of the project to ride political hobby horses (potentially for social ladder climbing outside the project).