Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

No thread? Thread. Discuss. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft We now have two people - Poettering and Icaza - responsible for "the default" Linux experience who now work at Microsoft. Besides, the people responsible for the mainstream that nowadays comes from Red Hat, are directly or indirectly funded by Microsoft, as it has ties with IBM Red Hat itself and is also funding the Linux Foundation.

> Discuss Okay. First let us ask, why does this matter? Why is it important? You tell us, OP.

>>61583 Open source development is just becoming a resume addition, instead of genuine contributors trying to offer an alternative to proprietary software. Developers contribute to a few projects then leave for a big paycheck at Google or Microsoft.

>>61585 It's bad for consistency and stability of projects but potentially good for testing new and novel ideas due to the number of people moving in and out of projects. Of course you could make the argument that you end up with a bunch of half-baked, insecure ideas at the end of that...

>>61583 There's nothing important about corporations wrapping themselves around OSS and turning project developers into corporate workers. >us

Poetteringware -> IBMware -> Microsoftware It's like poetry.

>>61614 >gif related At this point systemd might as well be the kernel, and we might as well call it GNU/SystemD.

The bare system would be GNU/eD

>>61578 Linux will rise from the ashes poettering-free. Thank god that idiot isn’t in the linux space anymore. Now he can go fuarrrk up windows instead!

https://nosystemd.org/ https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210706060304/https://without-systemd.frama.wiki/linux_distributions_without_systemd https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems ----- https://ewontfix.com/14/ https://ewontfix.com/15/ https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/the-real-motivation-behind-systemd.html ----- https://zzzchan.xyz/tech/thread/1.html

Who'd have thought the literal glowie programmer ended up going to one of the most glowie companies in the world. Truly, no one expected this at all. Does anyone else think that companies tend to prop coders with self-esteem issues and massive egos to work on obscure background processes like these in order to slowly but surely start wrangling linux into something suitable for them? Anyways, for a long time I've pretty much just used systemd distros because they tend to be really good, like Fedora, or like any other Fedora spin. I find that while rolling release distros tend to have updated packages and a lot of available packages for that matter, I also find that whenever I set up a DE like gnome or KDE on one of these, I'm still lacking some basic functionality due to a lack of documentation or knowledge of what obscure packages other distros use to make things 'just work', and even when I do get things 'working', they tend to feel somewhat janky, like my setup could break as easily as I got it working in the first place.