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I don't think Red Hat are forcing anyone's hand. I think the fact that Red Hat are hiring passionate developers to work on something they love full time is some
by circularfoyers 5y ago
I don't think Red Hat are forcing anyone's hand. I think the fact that Red Hat are hiring passionate developers to work on something they love full time is something they should be lauded for. Of course Red Hat have to pick a project they're going to focus on, they can't focus on every implementation, and it only makes sense that community projects aren't going to have feature parity with software that's being built for enterprise use cases, worked on people whose it's their full time job. It's because of the wider support that the majority of distros decided to go with them.
- bmn__ 5y agoThat is incorrect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067431
- circularfoyers 5y agoYour own comment that you've linked here, which mentions Russ Allbery, has him quoted saying, "Most of those [systemd] components are clearly superior to anything we have available now on Linux platforms and will be used in the distribution going forward". Then there's Fedora, which is upstream of Red Hat, who has many of it's contributors as Red Hat employees, so I don't see how it's odd that they would adopt software that Red Hat are invested in.
- bmn__ 5y agoAre you just going to ignore the evidence that goes counter to the narrative you want to establish?
- circularfoyers 5y agoI'm not intentionally ignoring any evidence, so I invite you to elaborate on what you're alluding to.