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Linux systemd Dev Says Open Source is 'SICK', Kernel Community 'Awful'

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday October 07 2014, @11:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mr-Popularity dept.

wirelessduck writes:

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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  • (Score: 1) by http on Tuesday October 07 2014, @07:53PM

    by http (1920) on Tuesday October 07 2014, @07:53PM (#103279)

    One of the more horrifying things about that presentation is that (in 2010) he pointed out that vital parts of consolekit's purported documentation were in a "To be written" stage . I just checked today, and some of them are, in fact, still "To be written".

    "But consolekit is deprecated!" I hear some wag in the back shouting. If it is, then Poettering really needs to update stuff, because pulseaudio is documented as explicitly depending on consolekit (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Startup/) and pulseaudio is definitely not deprecated.

    Poettering certainly makes an impression. Having the "think of the blind people!" card up his sleeve during that talk must have felt as reassuring as "terrorists! stop thinking!" feels to the US Government. It's a dishonest decoy, separate from the issues his software causes.

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