Agent Poettering, welcome back. You've done tremendous work for us.
*I actually don't care strongly about systemd one way or the other but couldn't resist the joke
Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
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Re: Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
#12Am I the only one who finds that weird that the author of this piece purportedly a journalist relies on twitter and rumours rather than you know email or call Pottering to ask him what he is doing? Is Phoronix supposed to be taken seriously?
Well the article does state:
>At first I thought they were jokes or just snarky remarks, but after a day of following up with folks, it actually turns out not to be a joke.
So who's to say he didn't? Twitter seems just to be where he first heard it
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#13Looks like a tactical 'Embrace'. On top of that, surveillance capitalism is winning over the free software / open source developers as companies like Microsoft are buying out / hiring the majority of them. The free-software activists from the FSF and other free-software supporters have lost to the tech bros at these big tech companies that have hijacked 'open-source' and ran with it. They have failed in their mission…
They pay you $500k/yr and up. Your open source project pays $50 on a good month. You have a house to maintain and family to feed. Why would you turn down such an offer? One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
Got a source for that $500k/year salary?
It might also be worth mentioning that Poettering was an employee at Red Hat, working on these open source projects, so I'd assume he was being paid more than 50 dollars a month for his work.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
They pay you $500k/yr and up. Your open source project pays $50 on a good month. You have a house to maintain and family to feed. Why would you turn down such an offer? One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS. Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
We have mortgages and credit scores because the aformentioned humanity more often than not lacks the responsibility to assess both the financial capabilities of those who borrow the money and the evaluation capabilities of those who lend.
Re: Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
#15"...now confirmed from additional sources that Lennart Poettering did indeed quietly depart Red Hat earlier this year for another employment opportunity." Can't we just wait for any official info?
Re: Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft
#16Looks like a tactical 'Embrace'. On top of that, surveillance capitalism is winning over the free software / open source developers as companies like Microsoft are buying out / hiring the majority of them. The free-software activists from the FSF and other free-software supporters have lost to the tech bros at these big tech companies that have hijacked 'open-source' and ran with it. They have failed in their mission…
"Surveillance capitalism is winning over the free software..." software that "just works" and offers the latest and the greatest features does, not "surveillance capitalism" or "open source developers".
"They have failed in their mission to stop all this closed-source software from spreading." except that was never the mission, the mission was to provide an alternative to complex licensing as well as simplify the improvement and development of things "everyone needs" both law-wise and code-wise.
The only mission that could be considered to be "failed" (depending on who you ask) is licensing.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
They pay you $500k/yr and up. Your open source project pays $50 on a good month. You have a house to maintain and family to feed. Why would you turn down such an offer? One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
Got a source for that $500k/year salary? It might also be worth mentioning that Poettering was an employee at Red Hat, working on these open source projects, so I'd assume he was being paid more than 50 dollars a month for his work.
Source: My paycheck
And I have actively watched OSS devs get shown the door when their work no longer matched the company's mission.
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#18Am I the only one who finds that weird that the author of this piece purportedly a journalist relies on twitter and rumours rather than you know email or call Pottering to ask him what he is doing? Is Phoronix supposed to be taken seriously?
Well the article does state: >At first I thought they were jokes or just snarky remarks, but after a day of following up with folks, it actually turns out not to be a joke. So who's to say he didn't? Twitter seems just to be where he first heard it
I mean why is he following up with folks? It’s not like it’s extremely hard to get in touch with Poettering.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS. Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
We have mortgages and credit scores because the aformentioned humanity more often than not lacks the responsibility to assess both the financial capabilities of those who borrow the money and the evaluation capabilities of those who lend.
This is a late stage cause. There are also many early stage causes.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have mortgages and credit scores because the aformentioned humanity more often than not lacks the responsibility to assess both the financial capabilities of those who borrow the money and the evaluation capabilities of those who lend.
This is a late stage cause. There are also many early stage causes.
"Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit: Some Observations on Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020
Late stage, huh?