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From El Reg:
Lennart Poettering, creator of the systemd system management software for Linux, says the open-source world is "quite a sick place to be in."
He also said the Linux development community is "awful" – and he pins the blame for that on Linux supremo Linus Torvalds.
"A fish rots from the head down," Poettering said in a post to his Google+ feed on Sunday.
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Linux systemd Dev Says Open Source is 'SICK', Kernel Community 'Awful'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:20PM
Poor Wolfgang. Lennart and the rest are such "dbus dbags."
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:05PM
Is dbus also in the Poettering coding philosophy?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:35PM
I would say no, dbus is not have the legendary Pottering-Foo philosophy because:
1) Its a message passing library. It doesn't try to EEE into being a audio processing shim or a DHCP client or BGP routing speaker. Its a message passing library.
2) Its not exclusive. You can have and use a system that has dbus, sysv IPC, DCOP, and maybe ancient fat old CORBA and it'll "just work" all in parallel without having to uninstall the others. Installing dbus doesn't come with a kernel driver hook that catches IPC and does a kernel panic saying its politically incorrect to use anything but dbus. Shoudn't say it too loud or some jerk will probably put it in.
3) The architecture of dbus is not stupid AFAIK. It has legendarily been used in poorly architected systems doing "stupid dbus tricks" but in itself AFAIK its not badly designed. I heard about some audio thing in a car for android embedded in cars that did something mind boggling like embed CAN bus packets inside dbus messages, like I can smell the smoking crack from here, but thats not dbus's fault and may not even be true or the alternatives might have even been worse... yeah well, maybe.
It does have a faint odor of the philosophy because you get things like plain ole GUI text editors that speak dbus for rather dubious reasons. Like WTF dbus, you're drunk go home, after closing time you don't belong here. But dbus itself is not necessarily evil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @08:23AM
It still doesn't shut down when it's not needed, which is reason enough for me to chmod a-x /usr/bin/dbus*