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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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It's not the inital skirt length, it's the upcreep.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:57PM
Well no matter how wrong and stupid you think it is your comment makes it clear that you are not going to punish it in any way that makes any difference. Is that why someone stole your paradox detector? x)
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(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Tuesday October 07 2014, @10:45PM
I hope that ThG does not really mean harm to anyone.
Sometimes you post something which just goes just a bit to far, I hope this was such a case.
In cases like this I feel it is important to distance oneselve from such a post. If only to let it be known that such sentiments are not universal.
However small, to me that does make a difference.
What you want to make of it is entirely up to you.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday October 08 2014, @06:39AM
My starting point is that I would rather everyone and everything was nice and reasonable but the realities are that this isn't the case. In fact the world is nowhere close to it. Then what?
I think the way you do but only up to a certain point, after that point such notions contribute to the damage being done and thus they stop being sensible reactions no matter how good the intent is. Kindness and being considerate are treasures, but only if you (and others) are not attacked or harmed. Taking a step back and making sure one understands the conflict can help a lot but only if the opponents show any inclination towards mutual cooperation on common ground, if not it's a waste of time.
Stuff like this is why I'm not a christian or pacifist; if one continues acting as a sacrificial lamb all one does is to contribute to, improve the effectiveness of, and encourage all kinds of evils and damages.
I wish I had fully realized the truth of this many decades ago but its truth is contrary to my innate nature.
I often try to provoke thought and I'm good at failing. It's not like most of my serious opinions are nice and comfortable (at least they aren't to me, and in addition to that they take some effort) so to a large degree it's a given. I have no reason not to wish harm on the people behind systemd any more than I have any reason not to wish harm on the US government and the IS and anyone else who harms me or wants to harm me. Seeing it that way is not a human right but instead a much more fundamental existential right shared with anything living and upon which everything else is built. None of the aforementioned follow any other rule in any meaningful manner thus I shouldn't either to the extent I have to have anything at all to do with them (and I'd rather not).
While the whole systemd debacle took me by surprise (two or three weeks ago or so I didn't even have an opinion on it) it has become clear that systemd is a big attack: a Linux utterly at the whim of corporate interests is what this really is about and such a Linux isn't worth anything to me nor something I can recommend to anyone.
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