alt Hacker NewsThis may be a “joke”, but it’s disturbing to see people clamoring to deny others their freedom in a FOSS context.
Want to use IPv6? Fine. But don’t try to remove v4 support from people who have built stable networks around it.
You won’t be able to force the world to switch to IPv6 with tricks like this, any more than you can force old industrial machines to stop using ancient 486es as controllers. There is a lot of old equipment in the world.
IPv6 was built to work alongside v4, and there is no reason to change that.
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budman1 • today at 4:00 PM
*removed comment. I didn't know this was an April fools joke. sorry for my lack of a clue....
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bladeee • today at 4:01 PM
What? Freedom to opt in or out is good either way.
> it’s disturbing to see people clamoring to deny others their freedom in a FOSS context
How does "allow building Linux to be IPv6-only" somehow "deny others their freedom" exactly? I'm willing to wager most distributions will still be dual v4+v6, but if they aren't, isn't that something for you to bring up with your distribution rather than that the kernel just allows something?