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I mean why is he following up with folks? It’s not like it’s extremely hard to get in touch with Poettering.
From my observations, Poettering is not a person who kindly answers his e-mails.
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The issue not being forced only. It's how valid criticisms are just tossed out of the window and systemd is developed as is because "the lead developer and the team knew way better than the collection wisdom accumulated over the years". Funny thing is they have bitten by the bugs they claimed they're immune to, so they had to apply these principles like they're first adopters of these. I've voiced my criticisms over…
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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
I don't know why the hate, both systemd and Pulseaudio are great, at least better than what was before them and improved Linux desktop quite a bit.
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Politicians also ruin countries for a lot of time before returning to mothership (lobby companies).
So you think he ruined Linux? What does that imply about all the distro devs that chose to incorporate things he worked on? It must be a heavy burden to be so much smarter than all of them.
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From my observations, Poettering is not a person who kindly answers his e-mails.
Your observation strongly differs from mine then. Poettering has always been fairly reachable and is easy to communicate with. That might have changed following the torrent of abuse a minority of the Linux community threw at him. I hope it’s not the case.
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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.
Maybe not 500k, but is 400k that far off?
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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.
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Open Source was literally created as an alternative to Stallman's Free Software.
Never thought all those "systemd is turning Linux into Windows" jokes would age like wine, yet here we are.
No pun intended?