Wonder who's going to scoop the TechCrunch buy out price, since that's usually TechCrunch's job.

Fine painters will almost never use black. The pigment in black paint is very deadening and harsh, it's difficult to work with. It's much better to take the time and create dark hues from the rest of the color wheel. A standard exercise in color theory classes is to create black from the primary colors. Most people end up with brown, but a beautiful, rich black and nearby shades can be accomplished, and it's worth the effort.

It's an entirely different ball game though when you switch from a subtractive color system (which is what painting is, the primaries being cyan, magenta and yellow) to an additive one (which a computer monitor is, with the primaries being the well known RGB). In an additive system dark hues are only accomplished by removing light instead of adding pigment, so the problems a painter faces with black don't exist quite in the same way. So comparing website/app design to Monet is a tiny bit far fetched.

It seemed like a lifetime ago but I used to live and breath this stuff, even got a degree in painting. I guess it wasn't entirely useless :)

I didn't see the words "bug report" anywhere there. Debian is a volunteer organization, open to anyone. If you want to improve it, sign up and help instead of just ranting about crazy paranoid theories like:

> It's simply a tactic to make sure that you are stuck on Debian.

Of course I'm biased, as I'm a former Debian maintainer, but I think that Zed's connection with the reality of the situation is tenuous, at best, in this case.

Making a distribution is difficult, and doing so with 1000's of volunteers who are not working on it full time (and since you're not paying for it, they don't really owe you anything) and are distributed throughout the world adds to the difficulty, so yes, there are bugs and problems and challenges to overcome. That said, if each author of each package in Debian got their way about the exact location of files and so forth, the system would be utter chaos. If you think your package isn't being treated right in Debian, get on the mailing list, file a bug report, make your case, and get things fixed, rather than treating Debian as "the enemy"... Sheez.