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It's interesting seeing the first comments describing Torvalds as a "toxic human being" and "Steve Jobs of Linux". Can you actually back what you're talking about or are you like most people commenting without thinking and just believing and taking for granted everything you read somewhere? Someone (german media theorist Bolz) once said: Indignation is the dignity of idiots. I guess it's true. You're just buying into everything.
That reminds me of the Mozilla/Eich case. Think of what you want about Eich and his support for Prop 8. But you're a fool if you really believe that is was about that. Eich had a few very good techinical ideas for Firefox. E.g. a mechanism to prove that binaries are build from what source tree exactly, a mechanism to check your binaries. (If you believe actually all your binaries are from the source code and no one ever in history attempted to get something other into the binaries, you're a fool also. Well no, I don't build from source. So maybe I'm also a fool but you for sure are a fool.) Brendan Eich got removed for tech-savvy IT-political reasons. Once this is initiated it's easy to stir up such outrage. If you believe this outrage was "organic" or naturally, well, you're a fool. Today Mozilla is sadly slowly dying on its SJW-suicide. I still use Mozilla, because it's the most free browser out there. But it's marketshare development looks terrible and maybe there is someome missing to take clear directions like Eich. So there you have it.
Torvalds, although he alreaddy complies to or is pretty much indifferent about most (insecure) stuff RedHat directly or indirectly wants in the kernel, for sure there a lots of people who like to see him go. To have someone "professional" on top of Linux kernel development with whom it would be "easier" to "deal" with. If you didn't know RedHat's No. 1 customer is the US military & Co. (it's just walking a floor down to the NSA). So I guess they like to have some convenience. Someone like Poettering and Sievers of RedHat are just front fron mens for a much uglier reality. However you can see Poettering talking about that systemd is what "RedHat's customers" want. Basically it's plain honest for everyone in sight.
So. What did Torvalds recently? Maybe nothing, but I guess he is not "helpful" regarging KDBUS. Maybe slowly some folks are getting angry or impatient.
Ok, now to Sarah Sharp. Someone at Slashdot did some research: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.p...3&cid=50664697 And this is how it's started: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/107 See for yourself. If you're a lazy person, and don't want to read both links all, well it's your loss. (Both topics thanks to: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8ed5fad)
Consider all this. And now consider this: "Another Longtime Linux Developer Looks To Distance Himself From The Kernel Community" (6 October 2015 at 10:30 AM EDT) http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...inux-Community
By the way, both Garrett and Sharp are argueing that most development already would be in the hands of corporations are someone working on Linux for a corporation. (see: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/) And both are trying to imply that they would be the advocates for having more indivual and hobbyist developers. Part one is certainly true, that the Linux kernel development is already owned by corporations. Part two, while I'm absolutely for that, but I don't believe that would be the ground for Sharp's and Garrettt's *real* intentions behind it. It's a nice statement for them to have.
Call me a conspiracy nut. I don't mind. It's terrible seeing today's young people believing everything they read. I was young in the 90s and I absolutely loved the X-Files and the X-Files had this kind of anti-military anti-government-agencies tone to it. At least in a term of "Don't trust them.", "Don't love them." But since the 2000's you cannot come up with something like that anymore. Today you either have totally absolutely 100% crazy stuff (plus anti-Americanism and often anti-Semitism) or you have indifference or you have love for the military and love for the government. But most of all, everybody wants to be "professional" and politically correct. Both things count more today than anything else. And outrage and idignation, yay! That also sells very well.
It's sad.
Have a nice day!
That reminds me of the Mozilla/Eich case. Think of what you want about Eich and his support for Prop 8. But you're a fool if you really believe that is was about that. Eich had a few very good techinical ideas for Firefox. E.g. a mechanism to prove that binaries are build from what source tree exactly, a mechanism to check your binaries. (If you believe actually all your binaries are from the source code and no one ever in history attempted to get something other into the binaries, you're a fool also. Well no, I don't build from source. So maybe I'm also a fool but you for sure are a fool.) Brendan Eich got removed for tech-savvy IT-political reasons. Once this is initiated it's easy to stir up such outrage. If you believe this outrage was "organic" or naturally, well, you're a fool. Today Mozilla is sadly slowly dying on its SJW-suicide. I still use Mozilla, because it's the most free browser out there. But it's marketshare development looks terrible and maybe there is someome missing to take clear directions like Eich. So there you have it.
Torvalds, although he alreaddy complies to or is pretty much indifferent about most (insecure) stuff RedHat directly or indirectly wants in the kernel, for sure there a lots of people who like to see him go. To have someone "professional" on top of Linux kernel development with whom it would be "easier" to "deal" with. If you didn't know RedHat's No. 1 customer is the US military & Co. (it's just walking a floor down to the NSA). So I guess they like to have some convenience. Someone like Poettering and Sievers of RedHat are just front fron mens for a much uglier reality. However you can see Poettering talking about that systemd is what "RedHat's customers" want. Basically it's plain honest for everyone in sight.
So. What did Torvalds recently? Maybe nothing, but I guess he is not "helpful" regarging KDBUS. Maybe slowly some folks are getting angry or impatient.
Ok, now to Sarah Sharp. Someone at Slashdot did some research: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.p...3&cid=50664697 And this is how it's started: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/107 See for yourself. If you're a lazy person, and don't want to read both links all, well it's your loss. (Both topics thanks to: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8ed5fad)
Consider all this. And now consider this: "Another Longtime Linux Developer Looks To Distance Himself From The Kernel Community" (6 October 2015 at 10:30 AM EDT) http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...inux-Community
By the way, both Garrett and Sharp are argueing that most development already would be in the hands of corporations are someone working on Linux for a corporation. (see: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/) And both are trying to imply that they would be the advocates for having more indivual and hobbyist developers. Part one is certainly true, that the Linux kernel development is already owned by corporations. Part two, while I'm absolutely for that, but I don't believe that would be the ground for Sharp's and Garrettt's *real* intentions behind it. It's a nice statement for them to have.
Call me a conspiracy nut. I don't mind. It's terrible seeing today's young people believing everything they read. I was young in the 90s and I absolutely loved the X-Files and the X-Files had this kind of anti-military anti-government-agencies tone to it. At least in a term of "Don't trust them.", "Don't love them." But since the 2000's you cannot come up with something like that anymore. Today you either have totally absolutely 100% crazy stuff (plus anti-Americanism and often anti-Semitism) or you have indifference or you have love for the military and love for the government. But most of all, everybody wants to be "professional" and politically correct. Both things count more today than anything else. And outrage and idignation, yay! That also sells very well.
It's sad.
Have a nice day!
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