> It's not even hard to find places where Poettering has said something that makes him look less sympathetic than this stuff. Right, like this: https://www.yo

> It's not even hard to find places where Poettering has said something that makes him look less sympathetic than this stuff. Right, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPOeOPGpwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPOeOPGpwM That is a CCC talk where Poettering takes the presenter's invitation for a single response as a cue to interrupt the rest of his presentation slides. Responses like, "Do you hate handicapped people?" give you a taste of the general decorum with which Poettering handled himself. That's not to say that Poettering isn't entitled to some response, nor that all his responses in that video are unfounded. But interrupting a presenter's presentation is extremely aggressive behavior. Even the CCC presenter who trashed Perl 5 two years in a row in a fairly distasteful fashion was met with polite responses from the audience. What's amazing is that Poettering consequently wrote a piece blaming Linus Torvalds for the sorry state of communication in open source[1]. I'm certainly not a fan of Linus' outbursts. But an audience member making a hostile takeover of a tech presentation is the stuff of nightmares. Anyone capable of doing that has no business opining on the health of open source communication. [1] https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...