[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

[A. Zimmer]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:26:35 -0400
Gregory Czerniak <gregczrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are logical tensions between advocating for choice and trying to
> dictate what a loosely-federated group of developers (some organized as
> democracies of varying levels of complexity) should or shouldn't do.  There
> are also tensions between advocating for freedom and saying that the people
> in freedesktop.org and Red Hat should be denied their freedom to associate.
> 

Absolute nonsense.  We all know damn well what open source programmers
should do.

Open source is not about profit.  Open source is not about ideology.
Open source is about producing applications that serve all of the people
all of the time.  Open source achieves this by maintaining a near-infinite
configurability that empowers the user to do what the user will.

The agenda of systemd deviates from this in toto.

Richard Stallman got it right when he begot the GNU project so long ago.
But these RedHat goons like Poettering and freedesktop.org want to overturn
this freedom in the name of their own self-defined "progress."