On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 0:59 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by misc
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

hint "Lennart" isn't always in his username (such as when he posts here on LWN)

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 3:55 UTC (Fri) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link] (1 responses)

I focused mostly on the mailling lists, where he sign by his name.

But taking your hint in account, I tried "mezcalero dinosaur -site:lwn.net" and it didn't yield lots of result ( ie, 2 ), and the 2 of them being false positives.

So maybe I did really miss something, but maybe this the same exact problem of having Lennart Poettering being a symbol, like the video of Phil Fish linked around this page ? IE, people made Lennart "internet famous", and some people love to hate him up to the point of repeating facts that cannot be verified ?

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 11, 2014 12:26 UTC (Sat) by ms_43 (subscriber, #99293) [Link]

That's probably a large part of the problem; claims that "LP is an asshole" are essentially unsubstantiated rumours that go around in circles among people who don't like systemd, or still haven't gotten over the problems PulseAudio caused them 5 years ago; people unfamiliar with systemd may first learn about it on forums where everybody accepts "LP is an asshole" as a basic premise, and so the meme spreads...

There are of course also pro-systemd trolls posting inflammatory comments and calling people "dinosaurs", but the systemd developers themselves aren't doing that or encouraging it.