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Re: Systemd eats udev, poettering says breaking not their problem

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Sometimes I think Lennary Poettering should offer a Patreon or similar donation scheme where every Linux user can cough up $1 and he'll promise not to write any code, send any emails or indeed use a computer at all.

No personal attacks on HN, please, even when passionate about init systems.

If he was calling Lennart a sociopathic blond-haired hitler youth with a software design ethos that would make Uncle Adolf proud, that would be a personal attack. But he didn't do that. he merely said that, if Lennart had put up a Patreon to stop writing software, he (and I) would donate.

I understand that this is a borderline-vitriolic reply, but hopefully you understand that the flagged/dead post is setting the bar real low for what qualifies as a personal attack here.

Re: Systemd eats udev, poettering says breaking not their problem

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No personal attacks on HN, please, even when passionate about init systems.

If he was calling Lennart a sociopathic blond-haired hitler youth with a software design ethos that would make Uncle Adolf proud, that would be a personal attack. But he didn't do that. he merely said that, if Lennart had put up a Patreon to stop writing software, he (and I) would donate. I understand that this is a borderline-vitriolic reply, but hopefully you understand that the flagged/dead post is setting the bar…

On the "attack" part, yes, the bar is low. It's low because the "personal" part is the salient one. These comments don't belong in the kind of civil and intellectually interesting discussions we're trying to have here.
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