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Re: embrace, extend, extinguish



On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:22:48AM +0000, KD wrote:
> Dan Ritter <dsr <at> randomstring.org> writes:
> 
> > Reading:
> > http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
> > 
> > systemd's upstream is explicitly interested in taking over all
> > Linux distros, not in the minor sense of being supported on
> > every system but in the major sense of making package management 
> > conform to their own views.
> 
> There's one sentence in the cited article I really like:
> "I originally intended to discuss this at the Linux Plumbers Conference
> (which I assumed was the right forum for this kind of major plumbing level
> improvement), and at linux.conf.au, but there was no interest in my session
> submissions there..."

At least he had the good sense to not even consider discussing it on the
debian-user mailing list.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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