Lennart, please apply for a job with AAPL.

Posted Nov 25, 2011 12:06 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Lennart, please apply for a job with AAPL. by wileyc
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

Seriously, if you're that adamantly opposed to systemd etc., there are Linux distributions that do not seem to subscribe to Lennart's flavour of Kool-Aid now, and have no apparent plans to do so in the future. (Slackware comes to mind.) Why don't you simply use one of those instead of telling other people where they should direct their creativity?

In the worst case, if at some point even Patrick Volkerding should decide to defect from the faithful, you and any other Lennart-haters can always band together and maintain your own Linux distribution that is true to the spirit of Unix (as defined by you) and free of any external contamination. It will undoubtedly prove very popular indeed. Lennart Poettering has no power over you in the end.

Anyway, systemd and »The Journal« may be good ideas in the long run or they may not. Some people do think they look promising. Others don't. Why not treat them like other innovations in Linux and let them sink or swim on their own merits? If they really suck that hard, people will come off them again soon enough. On the other hand, if they do improve things then more power to us.