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Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In"
An anonymous reader writes "Free software programmer Lennart Poettering has been part of his fair share of controversy in the open source community, and his latest essay may raise the most eyebrows yet. Poettering takes on the idea that the community is one big happy family and has some harsh words for the loudest and most obnoxious members. He says in part: "I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of a#@&oles, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets. I get hate mail for hacking on Open Source. People have started multiple 'petitions' on petition web sites, asking me to stop working (google for it). Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). Just the other day, some idiot posted a 'song' on youtube, a creepy work, filled with expletives about me and suggestions of violence. People post websites about boycotting my projects, containing pretty personal attacks. On IRC, people /msg me sometimes, with nasty messages, and references to artwork in 4chan style. And there's more. A lot more."
"The Linux community is dominated by western, white, straight, males in their 30s and 40s these days."
What is it with these social "justice" warrior types? It's like a massive campaign lately. Everywhere you have people demonizing "white cis shitlords". Ironically it's usually white males that complain, and they get proven wrong again and again.
Oh shut the fuck up already. NOTHING about what you posted is true.
The only problem here is that you have no fucking clue about the history of computing in genreal, Unix specifically, or anything on the periphery of the conversation.
Fuck off to OSX and stop posting about shit you have no clue about.
Can you explain in a logical and coherent manner why his software is not good? By saying "pure excrement" and "ice sculpture in the middle of the Sahara desert", you end up being the sort of troll that gives open source a bad name, thus reinforcing Lennart's position that he wrote. If you don't like something, then say why you don't like it in the way that intelligent adults used to do. Dropping down to name calling is like listening to a political arguments or to sports fans of opposing teams.
My take is that this is actually a move to create vulnerabilities in the Linux init system by making it as complex as possible. I am not saying Poettering is in on it, I rather suspect the NSA by way of the US military (by far largest customer of Red Hat) cooked up this plan, and found the perfect mediocre designer that has no clue how to do reliable, secure and low-complexity design, but with an ego huge enough to not know that in Poettering. The NSA TAO will live off the vulnerabilities in systemd for decades.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.