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As someone who disagrees with but nonetheless respects LP, you seem to misrepresent his character. He isn't as sensitive or shallow as you portray him, he's a p
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
As someone who disagrees with but nonetheless respects LP, you seem to misrepresent his character. He isn't as sensitive or shallow as you portray him, he's a provocateur and he embraces it to his leverage. He's really skilled at using technical details while mixing them in with lies by omission, subtle distortions and personal opinion to create some formidably sly arguments that an inexperienced observer takes for granted. Skilled programmer and speaker.
That he makes distribution maintainers' lives easier is mostly true. This isn't really an argument in favor of systemd, though. The things that distro maintainers did with sysvinit for so long has been anathema to any good design principles, so just about anything is an improvement in comparison. Yet even still practical systemd integrations are quite flaky and unoptimized (https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/Optimizations/ https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/Optimizati...), as there are no magic bullets and systemd being an informal spec is breeding ground for lots of cargo cult wisdom.
- belorn 11y agoI would like to see the face of a non-technical police officer that get to handle the reports of death threats. A person who develops and gives away software that makes people lives easier for free is so provocative that harassment, death threats and general hatred is directed at him. The actions of those people is then defended by a community because the developed software do not follow good design principles or is considered flaky and unoptimized.
- pessimizer 11y agoThat is a desperate non-sequitur. It might be easier to choose the worst person you can think of to reply to, but it's silly to pretend like this comment is a response to the comment above.