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I wouldn't say his projects were hated for political reasons. They were hated because they were a central piece of software (sound for PA the init for systemd)
by eloisant 12y ago
I wouldn't say his projects were hated for political reasons. They were hated because they were a central piece of software (sound for PA the init for systemd) and they were released unfinished.
It's certainly wrong to turn that to personal attacks against him, but I can understand why people disliked PulseAudio then Systemd - and even hated these projects because they caused breakage in numerous systems, hours to try to fix it, and ended up with justifications like "it's by design" or "you don't understand why but it's better this way".
- Shish2k 12y ago> they were released unfinished Isn't that how open source is /supposed/ to work? TBH, as a Debian user, I'm quite happy with the "Lennart releases theoretically brilliant but practically buggy apps, Ubuntu / Arch users suffer for a few months, Debian integrates the system once it's stable" workflow :)
- EmanueleAina 12y agoNowadays the workflow is more or less back to the reverse direction: Debian first and Ubuntu later, with the added benefit that Debian maintainers are rather more dependable when choosing the version to be packaged. :)
- EmanueleAina 12y agosystemd has always worked quite well for me and the transition in Debian has been incredibly smooth, so I wouldn't consider it "unfinished". PulseAudio was unfortunately released in Ubuntu even before Lennart & co. declared it releasable, so it was Ubuntu's fault if it gained a reputation of being "unfinished" (indeed it was, but it was not a fault of the PulseAudio team).