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Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com> skribis: |
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> When someone wants to take away my freedom, I get concerned. |
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It isn’t even necessary to be concerned about nefarious plans to be |
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concerned. The kind of ‘vertical integration’ systemd represents is |
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plainly bad software design, on its face; it is a violation of |
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modularity and reusability. It takes away so-called freedom simply by |
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being bad software that ignores decades of programming experience, |
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with results that are predictable -- including failure or breakage if |
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you try to remove or replace the poorly separated parts. |
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This is Programming 101, but usually it is impossible to argue with |
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someone on such grounds, because <the usual excuses>. |
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The main reason the term ‘Red Hat’ has put a chill down my spine for |
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20 years is not that I figured they were some evil plot to steal |
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‘freedom’, but that they have never been good at simplicity, |
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modularity, or stability of interface. |
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