On 09/12/2014 06:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:07:35 +0000 (UTC)
Bill Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> Then let me turn this story around: Where would systemd be if
>> Poettering wasn't RH-employed and if RH wasn't backing him?
>> Nowhere. It would be an anecdotal footnote in Linux history, nobody
>> would remember.
>>
>> Conversely, it's entirely silly and arrogant to tell people to
>> "implement something else" and better. Unless RH decides to turn
>> down systemd, this will not happen to come true.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>
> If a project's prevailing attitude is that it is "entirely silly and
> arrogant" for users to express their opinions, that does not bode
> well for the future of the product.
"the project" has never said any such thing.
to answer Ralf, I think Fedora would still be using systemd if Lennart
wasn't employed by Red Hat.
Likely. But Fedora would never have started to use
systemd if Poettering
wasn't RH-employed.
Actually nobody, would have taken notice about systemd.
I think the only relevance that has is that
his employment has allowed him to work on systemd.
I disagree.
After all we were using upstart before that, which was developed at
canonical. (And RHEL6 still is).
Right. Fedora/RHEL would never have have taken
notice of upstart if
Canonical weren't using it ;)
Ralf