Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In"
Found on Slashdot on Monday, 06 October 2014
Free software programmer Lennart Poettering has been part of his fair share of controversy in the open source community, and his latest essay may raise the most eyebrows yet.
He says in part: "I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of a#@&oles, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets."
Where there's smoke, there's fire. Lennart has his own, rather undiplomatic ways to deal with those who are not blindly following his ideas. That, and most notably his systemd project which gets shoved down the throats of admins, causes the backlash. He says he likes Linux, but ignores basic Unix principles: keeping things simple. Not to mention that a tool should only do one thing, but good. Instead, cramming everything into a single blob from which your entire OS depends is not a solution. He just asked for all the hate that's thrown at him.