2014/10/14 4:35 "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org>:
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now?
>
> I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity
> or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a lot of FUD, both
> about systemd and what Debian has agreed to do. In other words I don't see an
> avalanche, nor the tip of an iceberg.
Step 1: Somebody raises a valid problem, but doesn't have a whitepaper and list of bugs that will happen.
Step 2: Somebody notices, very publicly, that there is no whitepaper, and that the person raising the issue is not clairvoyant. (We really want that list of bugs, of course.)
Step 3: Somebody notices that the complaint can be conflated with a non-issue, and implicitly advises everyone to do so.
Step 4: Somebody tries to point out that conflating problems with non-issues is not a good idea.
Step 5: A chorus of boos rises aganst the whole thread, because there is no whitepaper, and no clairvoyance, and besides, it looks "just like this non-issue".
Presto: All dissent is fud.
Joel Rees
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CPUs just fancy pens.
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