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That's what Poettering has been doing his whole life, getting into good open source projects, squatting and then shitting all over them. The infection, stink and filth then linger for decades. He's a cancer on open source.
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
That he uses giant bloated abstraction layers to do it, is a bit questionable of course. :)
Linux already runs slower than Windows because of this overengineered junkpile.
Where 'modernize' is a codeword for 'shit all over'.
Hutber's Law all over again - improvement means deterioration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutber's_law [wikipedia.org]
--If you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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BSD is looking better all the time (Score:0)
LOL still fighting to his day with Pulse Audio on XFCE on Fedora 22.
Jeez has it come down to me having to write a functional volume/mixer applet for myself?
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That's what Poettering has been doing his whole life, getting into good open source projects, squatting and then shitting all over them. The infection, stink and filth then linger for decades. He's a cancer on open source.
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That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
That he uses giant bloated abstraction layers to do it, is a bit questionable of course. :)
Linux already runs slower than Windows because of this overengineered junkpile.
Re:BSD is looking better all the time (Score:5, Insightful)
That's a bit rude... I think Poettering's main motivation has been to simply modernize Linux.
Where 'modernize' is a codeword for 'shit all over'.
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Hutber's Law all over again - improvement means deterioration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutber's_law [wikipedia.org]
--
If you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.