On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 24 mar 20, 10:23:59, Charles Curley wrote: [...] > > It is positively Balmeresque in its insistence on metastasizing all over > > your computer [...] > It seems to me like you are comparing a FLOSS project with a company > that used its dominant market position to squash competition and a > terminal disease. Agreed. I didn't like that either. Whatever the systemd team is doing, and whether I like it or not -- they're doing free software. Attributes like "Balmeresque" are doubly insulting, "metastasize" are insulting (ironically copying Balmer's rhethoric -- remember "Linux is a cancer"?). Those folks are doing free software. By all means criticize what they are doing (or, even better: do something yourself), but FFS, take that into account! > This would be very insulting to those FLOSS developers, as well as all > developers of other FLOSS projects that *chose* to depend on systemd (or > parts of it), so I must surely be misunderstanding something. Thanks. Sometimes I get tired of blowing into that horn. Don't want systemd? Don't use it. And contribute to alternatives? And be polite to those who do like systemd. (And vice-versa, of course). Cheers -- t
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