Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Boycott Systemd
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:05:14
Message-Id: 20140923060509.GA4417@crud
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Boycott Systemd by Frank Peters
1 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > However, I do remain cautiously optimistic. Anyone who understands
3 > the human world knows all too well that idealistic causes do not
4 > persist for long. I am sometimes surprised at the longevity of
5 > Linux as a free and open project, but I realize that in time it too shall
6 > succumb to the social forces that have destroyed similar endeavors.
7 > I can only hope that the time will be long in coming.
8
9 I think the perhaps inevitable devolution may have more to do with the
10 complacency that is why we use a bloated clone of Unix instead of
11 something that is actually a fundamental advance on Unix. But this is
12 speculative.