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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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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Marand on Tuesday October 07 2014, @11:39PM
This topic was discussed at Slashdot yesterday and one comment there linked to this presentation video that apparently involves Poettering.
It's an enlightening watch, to be sure!
Like the Slashdot commenter mentions, the most relevant parts start at around 12 minutes in, and then it really gets weird around 54 minutes in.
I'd say the best parts in that video are around 23:00 [youtube.com], when Lennart accuses the presenter of "hating handicapped people" as a way to shut down criticism of gdm, and from 50:48 [youtube.com] to the end of the video. The last five minutes consists of Lennart basically going "it's free stfu" and "if you don't like what I'm doing you're obsolete" to everything the presenter says while becoming increasingly hostile over it. Then he gets on the stage and continues to argue!
This is exactly the kind of shit that people complain about in regard to open source software. He's as guilty as anybody else, probably moreso, for claims of toxicity in open source with his attitude and how he interacts with others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @12:35AM
I think that very few open source participants act in that manner. I've been to hundreds of presentations and conferences in person, and watched thousands of videos, and I've only ever seen a small number of people act that way:
1. Rubyists
2. "Social Justice Warriors"
3. Poettering
The rest of the people in the open source community are generally good, decent people. At least the others who are borderline cases manage to just keep their outbursts confined to mailing lists. In real life, they don't act out like Poettering did.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday October 08 2014, @12:40AM
I wasn't implying that a majority act this way. Rather, I was implying that the person complaining about poor behaviour is one of the ones that help perpetuate the hostile open-source member stereotype.